The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.

In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.

  • @PunkRockSportsFan
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    48 hours ago

    Weird. I had the exact opposite experience.

    I find every religion to be a liars den of lies.

    And all religious people are liars fools or worse.

    Humanism and religion are polar opposite ideas.

    Don’t apologize for religion. It’s gross.

    Keep that shit away from me and my kids. You bring it near my kids we are going to have a fucking problem.

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      I feel like you didn’t actually try to understand any of what I just said. I hate to break it to you, but it’s literally just a fact that there are religions that make metaphysical assumptions that are literally equivalent to secular humanism. If you think that they’re actually contradictory, it just means that you probably actually haven’t tried to study the history of religious thought from an actually critical perspective where you didn’t just presume that you already had it all figured out.

      • @PunkRockSportsFan
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        16 hours ago

        I refuse to “understand” anyone who believes in metaphysics.

        It’s just more make believe hokum

        • @bloup@lemmy.sdf.org
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          I really think you should look into what constitutes a metaphysical assumption if you think that you can escape making them

          • @PunkRockSportsFan
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            06 hours ago

            I think you shouldn’t assume someone isn’t knowledgeable about all the different superstitions of the world.

            I am, in fact, knowledgeable on this subject.

            I have concluded that all of them are bullshit.

            Every superstition or metaphysical (lol) or faith based belief system is baloney.

            No proof for any of them to be correct.

            Not one shred of evidence.

            Not a single one.

            Dude were done here.

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              I really don’t feel like we’re on the same page right now so let me just ask you some questions and focus on what I believe to be a serious misconception you have about what metaphysics is:

              Do you understand that when two quantum physicists are arguing about what the “correct” interpretation of the mathematics of quantum mechanics is, that they’re literally arguing about metaphysics? Do you understand that when Albert Einstein figured out general relativity, he did it literally by reconsidering the metaphysical assumptions that were implicit in Newtonian physics? And if you do understand those things, do you think that Isaac Newton and that Albert Einstein (both of whom thought a great deal about religion, more broadly too, in particular about what their work suggests about the world we live in) were just like liars and fools or something?

              • @PunkRockSportsFan
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                15 hours ago

                Fools. They were fools who believed in metaphysics.

                We know better today.