{"id":263,"date":"2009-03-16T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2018-03-31T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T13:12:15","slug":"the-morality-of-organised-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/the-morality-of-organised-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morality of Organised Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

No doubt those who know me have heard me prattle on about a number of seperate but interlinked topics such as religion, secularism and abortion rights.<\/p>\n

If you needed a better reason to doubt that religion is the basis of morality and irreligion is the basis of amorality it is the recent case from Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A nine year old girl was systematically raped by her stepfather for a number of years. She eventually fell pregnant to twins. At nine years old.<\/p>\n

Her doctors sensibly advised that she have a termination due to having the body of a nine year old and thus having a very high if not certain chance of death giving birth. Her mother supported the decision and the doctors carried it out.<\/p>\n

Then along came the celibate ranks of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Shock and Horror, Hell and Damnation they spouted. Abortion is a sin don’t you know. Can’t have that sort<\/em> in our<\/em> church they proclaimed.<\/p>\n

Cast them out like the imaginary demons they exorcise in Latin.<\/p>\n

Excommunication for the child’s mother and the sinful doctors who save her life. The girl herself is fine, too young to be at fault – just like her foetus in heaven or Limbo or whatever the line is now. She can remain in the church. Her and her step-father. The multiple rapist (who also molested her mentally disabled sister).<\/p>\n

Rape children or be a fascist dictator (Hitler, Mussolini, Franco) and you’re a-ok. Just repent your sins on your deathbed and it’s straight to heaven with you. You can also stay a member of the church.<\/p>\n

Save the life of a nine year old rape victin – begone, out ye go and probably straight to hell when you die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No doubt those who know me have heard me prattle on about a number of seperate but interlinked topics such as religion, secularism and abortion rights. If you needed a better reason to doubt that religion is the basis of morality and irreligion is the basis of amorality it is the recent case from Brazil. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,52,51],"tags":[204,206,205],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-rant","tag-abortion","tag-excommunication","tag-fuckwits"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}