Miserable people need a miserable religion.

(May 17, 2020 at 9:30 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Miserable people need a miserable religion.

I wonder if that's a chicken or the egg kind of thing.   hmmm...

I have to say, you don't make Islamic rule sound very appealing; and clearly most Islamic Republics manage to not be this harsh.

Side note: If you jail someone mistakenly you can let them out; if you cut off someone's hand mistakenly, you can't restore it and if you kill someone mistakenly you can't bring them back.

(May 18, 2020 at 9:34 am)WinterHold Wrote:

(May 17, 2020 at 8:22 am)brewer Wrote: Based strictly on what you've said there should be a lot of small children with missing hands.

Keep this up and there might be a lobotomy in your future.

This comment; brewer. I'm not crazy:

Quote:Robbery is punished by cutting the hand of the thieve

So you're OK with cutting the hands off children (who often take what is not theirs). Got it.

What with all the contradictions (abrogation) and obsolete (due to the passage of 1.5 millennia since it was written) references in the Koran I'd imagine that any society that took it as "the law" would be in a terminal state of indecisive legislative paralysis.