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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:09 pm
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And yet you support punitive maiming.
I suspect that the only reason you find eye gouging to be ‘disgusting and repulsing’ is that Mohammad didn’t authorize it. If he had, you’d heartily approve.
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Edit: sorry, Helios - that was for Winter.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Or maybe the Regent refused to cede power to her son and eye-gouging was merely the means to that end.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:46 pm
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(December 26, 2021 at 5:14 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Or maybe the Regent refused to cede power to her son and eye-gouging was merely the means to that end.
Not to mention that if you stop reading history every time you run across a horror story like this, you may as well save yourself the trouble and stop reading history altogether.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 6:01 pm
You were supposed to quit eating those paint chips, not double down on them, winter.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 7:27 pm
Sez the OP, when we have graphic evidence of people being thrown off a tower to their deaths, simply for being gay...in "modern" Middle Eastern times.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 7:39 pm
Soooooo…..did you ever end up figuring out why east and west got separated? Seems like it might be instructive for you.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 8:12 pm
How tastefully brutal. I like this Irene woman.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 8:17 pm
(December 26, 2021 at 5:03 pm)Helios Wrote: Yeah because Islams methods of punishment are just candy and ice cream
I thought it was bacon and whiskey, silly me.
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