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Hopefully also doesn't need saying, but this is why you get rid of the bat in a dumpster across town.

Get twenty phone numbers. Whenever you meet someone you know, tell them you changed your number because of this stalker and to give you their phone so you can give them the new number. Give each person a different number every time, until you reach twenty. Make a note of who got each number. Wait a week. If you weren't contacted yet, do the same thing with 20 other people.

When you ARE contacted again, you'll at least have a list of people who knew the number, if not the exact person. Then you put on a hoodie in a color you don't usually wear, take a baseball bat to their head from behind, get rid of hoodie and baseball bat in a dumpster on the other side of town and enjoy the rest of your life.

Nah, man. You can't be responsible for the middle ages and denial of science and then turn around and say "oopsies, actually we're good with some science now". You can't be the greatest threat to several civilizations and the reason wars were fought and crusades killed millions and then claim "nah bro, on God, we're just finna heal some people, trust us np". You can't cover up pedophilia in your ranks and move offending priests from parish to parish, from abuse to abuse, and then say "yo, just let us take care of people when they're at their weakest, trust us bro, we just need a bit more power over people in a position of weakness bro, just this one more time bro". No, catholic hospitals are like saying Isis summer camps or CIA flower planting trips.

Your institution is evil. You don't get to give yourself some good PR and wash the evil away. Everyone knows you'll just use whatever power people give you to further your own agenda - like push for letting women die instead of performing abortions, or preaching abstinence instead of teaching teenagers how contraceptives work. You're evil and will die evil. All society can do is not help you slow down your death.

You = catholicism, not you as a person. I'm sure you're cool and all, and it's a shame you haven't yet gotten out of the indoctrination - though it's not surprising, catholics have been indoctrinating people for literal millenia. They've gotten really good at sinking their teeth into people and guilting them into following along with the rest of the flock.

You can derive your morals from wherever you want, I honestly don't care. And you can consider those morals when applying for a job, such that you don't end up with a career in a field where you are forced to go against your morals. This "I'm in emergency care or obgyn but don't do abortions" shit? That's too late. You had your time to make a decision - when you're already hired is not that time.

I'm sure plenty of catholic doctors make great physicians. But if you allow your morals to come before your job, but actually lack the morals to quit that job when it is apparent that it contradicts what you believe - at that point you're not taking a moral stand, you're just a cunt with a soapbox.

I too can write 'roses' on a sign and put it in my back yard next to the pile of manure.

they should not have to perform abortions and prescribe contraceptive treatment generally

Abortions are medical procedures and contraceptives are the medical professional advice to prevent unwanted children/disease. If the institution doesn't allow for fucking medicine to be practiced, it's not a hospital, it's a church.

So yeah, let's allow catholic hospitals to do whatever the hell they want with regards to religion, idgaf. But if their religion prevents them from offering medical care, they're not allowed to practice medicine and they sure as shit aren't allowed to call themselves a hospital.

Idk about ally hat, I just wanted to say that emoji always makes me think of two people high fiving first, and I need to mentally change it to "no, it's probably praying".

I know gender and sex aren't the same thing. You could tell that because I provided two meanings for gender, only one of which was sex. Your problem seems to be I don't accept your definition of gender.

But this isn't really your problem, because it's not your definition. Instead, it's a newer definition that's been tacked onto the word, that you have accepted and propagated, and now are jumping on others for not doing the same. I 'd be lying if I said I don't understand why you'd want to change the meaning, to make it something else. It's a good word for you. It's a word that is already known, so it's in the collective mindset. A new word would be harder to get 'out there', while another (weaker - lesser used) word wouldn't generate as much buzz and discussion when you misuse it. It's a cunning thing to do. It's also unacceptable and vile. If we're changing words' meanings, then you're welcome to find out

That's stupid.

Has in the meanwhile been changed to mean "I concede that I am in the wrong regarding this matter and will take myself out of the conversation for future replies".

To reinforce this change in meaning, I'll be blocking you now. Have a good rest of the day.

Gender is a synonim for sex. It is also used when speaking about words - in some languages, words have a gender.

Rejecting science (biology in this case) is one major component of religion. Others are dogma (a set of principles that are taken as axioms and never contested, eg gender can be whatever you want it to be), heresy (eg offering a scientific view that differs from dogma, like the fact that biology presents two genders), censorship and apostasy (removing such an article for disagreeing with the dogma, regardless of scientific facts).

Seems to me like Dawkins slightly overreacted, but it's understandable because he did so based on the religious-like fervor exhibited by those who would remove an article published by a biologist, debating biological classification, because they disagree with its implications.

For all the talk about the unscientific right, it seems to me like the left ignores science just as much when it's not what they want to hear - what their group has already agreed to be true. This video comes to mind: https://youtu.be/zB_OApdxcno