{"id":2931,"date":"2016-01-13T11:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:36:37","slug":"you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-department-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"You-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Donohue — no sane adult’s idea of a clear-headed thinker — snipes at Obama’s condemnation of religious profiling during last night’s State of the Union address as hypocritical on the grounds that the HHS contraception mandate is — GASP!<\/i> — religious profiling. I am not kidding you: He actually says that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate is a classic case of religious profiling. Not only does it cherry pick Catholic non-profits<\/span> by forcing them to pay for abortion-inducing drugs<\/span>, it redefines what constitutes a Catholic entity<\/span>: Catholic social service agencies that hire and serve large numbers of non-Catholics\u2014that is what truly Catholic institutions do\u2014are deemed to be no longer Catholic<\/span>. This explains why the Little Sisters of the Poor were declared to be non-Catholic<\/span> by the administration; it also explains why the nuns sued them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Little Sisters of the Poor were told they have to fill-out a form saying their religious beliefs proscribe provision of contraception as part of their health plan; they refuse, claiming that completing a form burdens their religious freedom.<\/p>\n

I am reminded of Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous dismissal of theologians, and more generally of the godly:<\/p>\n

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Whatever a theologian feels to be true must be false: this is almost a criterion of truth. His most basic instinct of self-preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.<\/p>\n

The Antichrist, §9<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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