Top 10 thoughts for 2009
Posted by Mathew | January 3, 2010 | No Comments
There’s something about the end of the calendar year that causes us to reflect on the year that has just casually slipped us by. Typically celebrated in a fluttering of fireworks (or dazzling summer lightening storms and resounding thunder – as was the case in Melbourne, Australia, this last New Year’s Eve) most people take the time to spend with family and friends, among who a great many of them still remember “last year’s New Year’s Eve” (or should that be “the year before last’s New Year’s Eve”?) as though it were yesterday.
Memories can be a curious thing. So it’s with similar curiosity that I’m posting a listing of my most viewed articles for 2009 on thoughts out !oud – I’m surprised at some of the results but it comes as no surprise that the majority of them (60%) resolve around issues of sexuality. Seems sex interests most everyone. If anything, this list certainly is demonstrative of my focus throughout the year – and that’s interesting in itself and leads me to ponder if my focus will change throughout this coming year.
At any rate, without further ado, here are the following top 10 thoughts – or rather, the most read – for 2009, in order from least read to most. Looking forward to sharing more thoughts with you – including in a more varied and exciting way – during this Year of Our Lord 2010.
10. Blood on the boil: homosexuals see red over discrimination
You would be hard pressed to find someone who would not agree that the donating of blood is a most worthy cause. Many thousands of Australians each year cheerfully bear an arm to give blood once every ninety days. There a many more Australians willing to do the same, it seems – yet they won’t because they believe that they can’t and that they are unduly discriminated against simply because they are gay. I would encourage them to look a little more closely as I can’t see any discrimination that is based on sexual preference whatsoever.
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9. Responses to 50 reasons why religion sucks, pt.4 of 5
“50 reasons why religion sucks” – Day 4 of 5!
This is the fourth instalment lot of 10 so-called “reasons” as to why religion sucks. This follows the previous part three post of Responses to 50 reasons why religion sucks.
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8. Carrie Prejean: nude pics, hypocrisy, intolerance and … irrelevancy 101
Since Carrie Prejean became an American household name on April 19 during the Miss USA beauty pageant for her “politically incorrect” response to a question on same-sex marriage, there has been no end of malicious attacks on her name – in the media and the blogosphere.
To recap, Ms Prejean answered that she believed marriage was to be between one man and one woman.
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7. Free condoms increase teen pregnancy
The British Government spent a whopping £5.9m to “educate” over 2360 teenagers in a new program to primarily teach them the proper usage of contraceptives and of safe-sex practices. That equates to £2,500 per teen. A large part of the program involved the handing out of free condoms to the program’s participants who also received detailed ‘tips’ on how to engage in sexual intercourse.
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6. Responses to 50 reasons why religion sucks, pt.1 of 5
Thoughts out !oud tends to get a fair bit of Google search traffic for the term “religion sucks”. This seems to be in response to a blog post I published a few months back titled: Why Religion Sucks (and will destroy your soul). As a result, I thought I would address one of the search result items that I found when I punched in the same search term: 50 Reasons Why Relgion Sucks. It occurred to me that many people are likely parroting some of these very “reasons” as to why religion sucks, so let’s challenge them a little.
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5. Quote: Peter Kreeft on tolerance and acceptance
Here’s a great quotation from Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft, on the topic of Moral Theology and Homosexuality, taken from an address delivered to St Mike’s College in November 2002
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4. “It’s not fair: homosexuals can’t marry who they love”
Without a doubt, the most common objection to marriage remaining as the union between one man and one woman, for life, is that current marriage law “unfairly” discriminates against homosexuals who desire – and cannot help but desire – those of the same-sex (second to this is the claim that current marriage laws offer unequal protection / rights to homosexuals – that’s the subject of a different discussion).
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3. Quote: hope, faith and love
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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2. There’s no inequality for the Greens’s marriage equality amendment bill to address
On 25 June 2009, Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young lodged the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill in the Australian Senate.
This Bill seeks to repeal the definition outlined in the Marriage Act 1961, redefining the definition of “marriage” as meaning: “the union of two people, regardless of their sex, sexuality or gender identity, voluntarily entered into for life.”
The current definition of “marriage” reads, and ought to remain, as meaning: “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.”
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1. Why religion sucks (and will destroy your soul)
Religion sucks. Plain and simple.
If you’re offended by that then, quite frankly, it’s because you’re religious.
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That’s it – hope you enjoy re-reading (or reading for the first time) some of these articles.
Thanks for your readership during the year.
Thoughtfully yours,
Mathew
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