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I'll take my warnings about insidious cultural programming with a grain of salt when they come from Catholics. Thanks.

It's hard to imagine many other organizations with their level of experience on the subject. The analysis of the issue seems fairly spot on, and their own agenda seems fairly transparent.

You should also do that when they come from atheists!

If only "atheist" was a meaningful descriptor of how a group acts

Likewise, neither is the word “Catholic” actually a meaningful descriptor for how a group acts.

Maybe we should just take the article on the merits of its content, and not its source.

When evaluating literature, ignoring the context of the literature strips significant meaning from the literature.

Suggesting there is bias? It's pervasive and not unique to the Church. For example this article's sampling is narrow.

Literature? This is a blog post. It’s not like I’m losing a critical piece of the Superbowl advertising zeitgeist by ignoring the identity of the authors. The Superbowl is not a figurative tool to be used as the backdrop for religion in modern advertising. If this was reposted anonymously and still stood on its own, would we have to do this song and dance?

The content of this article stands on its own or it doesn’t. Ignoring it because it was written by someone with different values from your own is puerile. That was my original point.

I mean i was being in tongue in cheek, but it really seems like a "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" kind of situation.

"Atheists" aren't a group with any kind of institutional power or unified agenda. Unlike, for instance, the Catholic church.

Ah, the famous "you can't criticize X because you're Y".

You should be careful with that, it rarely leads to healthy opinions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics

race, sex/gender etc are all inherent personal traits.

Is religion the same?

So glad to see this comment. It really is a bit rich, isn't it?

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