I’m also wondering if people have other apps they’d recommend. Thanks!

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

But their lies that it is a “true” church and all good are true and you can be content with your learned and forced guilt and pay your $1.99. Ah yes, long live the old memorized Baltimore Catechism. Erroneous? Perhaps, but it still lives in a lot of us.

You and others can blindly defend and “obey” and say “jokes”. But the “true” Church where we are “forced” to believe, has lied and withheld and continues to pay to cover up the scandals too much for us to blindly accept most anything or defenses, or even silence, or “you must or else” that come from the Vatican, or you, or Donahue, or elsewhere these days.

1.) “people chiseled the word of god on stone tablets” The article starts off assuming that the reader is an atheist, that s/he doesn’t believe in God–that is, that the Ten Commandments weren’t handed to humanity by God, but merely chiseled by humans. This view is further entrenched by not giving a respectful capitalization to words like “God” or “Ten Commandments.”

2.) “enabled things like religious flyers, handed out to innocent bypasser[s]” The realm of religious flyers on street corners is usually frequented by fundamentalists, not Roman Catholics, but that’s not my main concern here–my main concern is your implicit message that these ‘flyer people’ are doing something wrong by handing out flyers, by subjecting these “innocent byspasser[s]” to their views. I don’t appreciate these flyers much myself, but that doesn’t mean these people don’t have a right to profess their faith in God. To imply that what their doing is morally wrong is itself wrong. (I.e. By setting up the bypassers as innocent, you’re implying that the ‘flyer people’ are somehow committing a crime against these ‘innocent’ people; it’s a rhetorical structure.)

Other news outlets have reported these same findings, but they’ve done it in a clear, non-biased manner: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12391129 or http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/02/07/2011-02-07_forgive_me_iphone_new_app_okayed_by_catholic_church.html)

I’m not asking for DISCOVER to endorse Catholocism or any religion–I’m just asking that it write its news in an un-biased manner…something this article is not. Sadly, this article emphasizes the worn out, wrong view that belief in God and knowledge of science are mutually exclusive. As a newly-minted college physics professor and a practicing Catholic, I can attest that they are not. Bottom line: please show some respect to those who love science and believe in God.