The Catholic Church Says How to Live and How to Die

The church has always dictated how people live. It is no surprise they think they get a say in how people die. It is our fault for allowing them to have so much power and as any other dictatorship, the church should be given limits by which they must abide or be ousted from power.

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Target: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Sponsored by: Compassion & Choices
The nation's most powerful religious body is launching an attack on the right to dictate our end-of-life decisions.

During its high-profile June 15-17 meeting in Seattle, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed the choice of aid in dying at life's end.

The Bishops Conference proposes a platform designed to restrict patient access to end-of-life choice. Their document, To Live Each Day with Dignity, is the first statement on aid in dying by the full body of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

They also seek to shame people who support aid in dying, and the terminally ill patients who seek it, through the unique power of their pulpit.

Every American should have the right to a dying process free of meddling from religious or governmental institutions.

Let the Conference of Bishops know that their views do not reflect mainstream opinion. No one--and no institution--should have the power to dictate your end of life choices.

Celebrity Non-Believers

Celebrity Non-Believers Celebrities, like politicians can't be as honest about this particular opinion if they want to keep their fan base intact, afraid to lose their really stupid followers. As such, the following non-believers are listed in degrees of their non-belief. Obviously, they don't want to burn any bridges just in case. Who will admit aloud that christianity is a crock?

Damned Skippy: Douglas Adams, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, Darren Aronofsky, Isaac Asimov, Dan Barker, Dave Barry, Ingmar Bergman, Richard Branson, James Cameron, George Carlin, John Carmack, Adam Carolla, John Carpenter, Asia Carrera, Fidel Castro, Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Francis Crick, David Cronenberg, David Cross, Alan Cumming, Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Ani DiFranco, Micky Dolenz, Harlan Ellison, Richard Feynman, Harvey Fierstein, Larry Flynt, Dave Foley, Jodie Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, James Gleick, Robert Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Hitchens, Jamie Hyneman, Eddie Izzard, Penn Jillette, Billy Joel, Diane Keaton, Michael Kinsley, Artie Lange, Richard Leakey, Bruce Lee, Tom Lehrer, John Lennon, Tom Leykis, James Lipton, H.P. Lovecraft,Bill Maher, John Malkovich, Barry Manilow, Todd McFarlane, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Frank Miller, Marvin Minsky, Julianne Moore, Rafael Nadal, Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Gary Numan, Bob Odenkirk,Patton Oswalt, Camille Paglia, Steven Pinker, Paula Poundstone, Terry Pratchett, Robin Quivers, James Randi, Ron Reagan Jr., Keanu Reeves, Rick Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joe Rogan, Henry Rollins, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Bob Simon, Steven Soderbergh, Annika Sorenstam, George Soros, Richard Stallman, Howard Stern, Julia Sweeney, Teller, Studs Terkel, Pat Tillman, Linus Torvalds, Alan Turing, Eddie Vedder, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Steven Weinberg, Joss Whedon, Ted Williams, Steve Wozniak

Not so sure: Margaret Atwood, Antonio Banderas, Susie Bright, Warren Buffett, Vincent Bugliosi, Dick Cavett, Robert X. Cringely, Clarence Darrow, Charles Darwin, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Dreyfuss, Umberto Eco, Timothy Ferris, Carrie Fisher, Bill Gates, Stephen Jay Gould, Matt Groening, Bob Guccione,Robert (Bob) James Lee Hawke, David Horowitz, Bob Hoskins, Robert Jastrow, Matt Johnson, Jack Kevorkian, Larry King, Tony Kushner, Dave Matthews, Larry Niven, Neil Peart, Sean Penn, Roman Polanski, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, James Taylor, Charles Templeton, Uma Thurman, Ted Turner, Robert Anton Wilson

Skeptical, but not ready to call it: Trey Anastasio, Richard Dean Anderson, John Perry Barlow, Lewis Black, Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Arthur C. Clarke, George Clooney, Billy Corgan, Dalai Lama, David Duchovny, Patrick Duffy, Danny Elfman, Morgan Freeman, Kinky Friedman, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Spalding Gray, Seth Green, Stephen Hawking, Hugh Hefner, Sir Edmund Hillary, Molly Ivins, Angelina Jolie, Mark Knopfler, Stan Lee, Monica Lewinsky, G. Gordon Liddy, Marilyn Manson,Sarah McLachlan, Mojo Nixon, Krist Novoselic, Emo Philips, Natalie Portman, Christopher Reeve, Andy Richter, Oliver Sacks,William Shatner, Neil Simon, Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Mark Twain, Gene Wilder, Bruce Willis, Edward O. Wilson,Terry Wogan

Jesus Christ

Not only are our soldiers who do not claim a religious affiliation sent to the most dangerous areas, the guns they carry are imprinted secretly with biblical code that our tax dollars pay for their inscription. The religious wrong is at it again.

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Now that Skyguy failed to appear and whisk away all the truly stupid people on the planet who adhere to the ridiculous publication that advertises fairy tales as fact like it was written by people who were actually there to see it happen, why haven't the churches cleared out after doubt has now officially been cast? I, personally, am more than a little disappointed. I was looking forward to getting rid of them. You know, the imbeciles. Imagine a world with less stupidity in it. A world without priests and other pedophiles, right wingers, Conservative Republicans, Tea Baggers, televangelists, Darwin Doubters, Neo-Nazis, KKK members and bigots of all varieties including, but not limited to anti-Semites, homophobes, bible-thumpers, psalm-singers, NRA-supporters, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, George Bush, and Believers who are Purveyors of Reality TV.

Aaah...What a beautiful world it would have been.

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She would not take our advice to stop feeding her dog chocolate when we showed her in writing what Veterinarians all over the world had written about how dangerous it was to dogs and what a painful death it would bring to a dog allowed to eat chocolate. Yet she reads and believes every word in the bible with no proof, evidence, or familiarity of the author. As such, she sat by and watched as not one, but two beloved pets of hers died the most horrible, painful, unnecessary deaths they could while she prayed to jesus for their recovery. What a stupid woman.