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Excerpt from Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless by Greta Christina


"70. I'm angry about the Magdalene laundries operated by the Catholic Church in Ireland. I'm angry that for decades - indeed, for well over a century - women who were considered sexually immoral, including unwed mothers, prostitutes, sexually active teenagers, women who had left their husbands, disobedient servants, overly flirtatious girls, and more - were imprisoned and held against their will in what amounted to forced labor camps. I'm angry that they were physically abused, psychologically abused, forcibly separated from their children, and forced into endless days of backbreaking labor to profit the Church, in many cases for the rest of their lives. I'm angry that they would have been better off in prison: that they were held on the sole authority of the Church, with no legal recourse, no due process, and no possibility of appeal. And I'm angry that all this was done in the name of enforcing a divine code of goodness and morality."







[link to www.cbsnews.com]


"It sounds medieval, something that happened hundreds of years ago, but, in fact, the last Magdalene laundry closed just over two years ago."

The last one was closed in 2007!!!


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