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The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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The Catholic Church in America Is Agonizing Over Abortion

I'm a bit more worried by the extreme reactionary nature of the papacy now. They're disobedient on contraception. Yes. Gregundtling, on divorce, on gay marriage to an extraordinary degree. We just did it, yes. And the only holding firm on abortion, which in my opinion is actually a very strong moral question and shouldn't be decided lightly. I feel very squeamish about it. But anyway, even on that, the Catholic community is very agonized. Very few of them could tell you very much about what the Catholicism really is. It's increasingly a cultural thing. So really the only threat from religious force in America is the same as it is.

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