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Thought it would be encouraging to submit a piece that appeared in the latest FFRF newsletter “Freethought Today” ‘Theologian admits religion does more harm than good.’ [freethoughttoday.com]
“Disgust is the final step in the explication of the idea of lived religion. On the other side of disgust is a clearer vision of how religion is actually lived in everyday life, with its intimate cruelties, its petty as well as profound humiliations, its sadism and its masochism, its abuses of power and its impulses to destroy and dominate.” also ” He quoted psychologist Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine priest who estimates that half of Catholic clergy violate their vow of celibacy. “

JackPedigo 9 Feb 1
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