Links With Your Coffee - Monday
- The anti-pedophile coloring book / Remember kids: Be good, say your prayers and, uh, never be alone with a priest. Praise!
Take the Archdiocese of New York. It has apparently just released new coloring book for kids, all about how to be safe in an age of fear and predation. It is full of nice pictures of kids being sweet and virginal and right, engaging in happy activities that praise Almighty God while protecting themselves from, say, online predators and vegans and atheists. It is about awareness, about listening to your parents and saying your prayers and never, ever being alone with a priest and being nice to animals and never hitting your sister and ...
Wait, what? What was that, about the priests? Oh right. Um, the pedophilia. The sexual molestation and the lawsuits and the hints of deep ongoing perversion for the past, oh, 2,000 years. Yes. - Bill Clinton - Charlie Rose
- virtual philosopher: Tom Hurka Interview on Bernard Suits's The Grasshopper
The Grasshopper defends an analysis of the concept of playing a game - the very concept that was Wittgenstein's prime example of one that can't be analyzed. Yet Suits's definition is both persuasive and tremendously illuminating. It's the best piece of conceptual analysis I know. The book then argues for the central place of game-playing in a good human life, arguing that in a utopia where all instrumental goods are supplied, people's prime activity would be playing games. This is philosophically very deep. As I've argued in my 'Games and the Good' paper, it gives the clearest expression of what I call modern as against classical values. It's when you have Suits's definition of a game in hand that you understand most clearly what, say, Marx and Nietzsche had in mind when they proposed their visions of the good life, and how those differ from a classical view like Aristotle's.
- Religious Nut Kills His Own Child Even in America, correction Canada, but then Canada is in America too, right?
School chums say Aqsa had been arguing with her family for months over whether she should wear the hijab
.(tip to Ray) - irReligion.org » World History With The Pope(hat tip to all who sent me links to this)
- Whats So Great About Scooters? Why Should You Care? - Wheels - Autos - New York Times Blog
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars: "War on Christmas" Sanity
- Pharyngula: The atheist marketing failure cartoon
Comments
re religious nut kills his own child: as sad as this is to admit, that happened in my country of canada, rather then the U.S.
These words say it all:
"She just wanted to show her beauty. She just wanted freedom, freedom from her parents."
Wasn't it Mitt Romney who said freedom requires religion? It's always bad to judge an entire group on the actions of a few but as most of us know, there's enough proof that religion requires the opposite of freedom. It requires devotion to divine authority, unquestionable authority. The authority over your life and this poor girl died because she didn't want to submit to this authority. How is that freedom?
I also would like to see some form of outrage from the Muslim community of this barbarism but sadly it seems they only are motivated to speak out when a teddy bear is named after their prophet or when a cartoon is drawn of him. The life of a human means nothing. If Islam is a religion of peace then I am the Queen of France.
Wow, sorry to double post but did y'all see the actual drawing from the coloring book? It's fascinatingly creepy! From the "Three's Company" styling of the angels to the Poltergeist-like rotation of the priest's head with all the phallus-like utilities next to him, the sacramental cup above the boy's head like a perverse halo and the scared look on his face as he seems to be disrobing. Not to mention the littering of crucifixes everywhere...
Maybe I'm reading to much into this illustration but if you ask me the artist who rendered this should be awarded a show at the Guggenheim for subversive brilliance.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/73270
Git,
You're not reading too much into it - except that the alter boy is just taking off (or putting on) his surplice; I think you've read the rest right. The creepiness of the grinning angels is surpassed only by the horny look on the priest's face. That the New York Archdiocese of the church actually has a coloring book in which alter boys are warned against being alone with a priest is absolutely mind-blowing. "Hey kids, watch out for father Flanagan - you never know what kind of sleazy things you can expect from the graduates of our seminary!"
The location of the child murder has no real meaning as there is nothing Canadian or American about about the cultural context of the crime.
The murders of daughters and daughter in'laws has become relatively common in Canada in families that use their old world religious crap to isolate themselves and their children from the culture they live in.
The next time you hear Dawkins refering to religious labeling of children as a form of child abuse, remember this story, it is not an isolated event.
A cowardly cruel and dishonorable practice refered to as honor killing.
These cases are good examples of the huge flaw in the idea of multi culturalism. There are limits to how much of the old culture can be acceptable in a western democracy. In his own culture, this sadistic bastard who beat his daughter to death is not a criminal.
Hitchens made basically the same point recently, but isn't it amazing that Muhammad Parvez murdered his daughter and he apparently doesn't dishonor Muhammad the 'prophet', but a teddy bear named Muhammad does.
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