(May 10, 2016 at 6:18 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote:(May 10, 2016 at 5:45 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: When these Wahaabi-Salafi scholars appear in the TV and are asked to condemn Rajm (stoning) the beheading they always say things like "Saudi and Iran do not have true Sharia" and they don't really condemn .
Saying Iran and Saudi Arabia don't practice true Sharia is like saying that American chattel slavery wasn't instigated by real white people. It doesn't mean anything. It's still a reality for the people languishing under it regardless.
I hate it when anyone, including atheists pull the "true" fallacy.
Civility and morality isn't in a common label, but in our species actions. We are still ultimately individuals first. If a label had magic powers we could expect to see a society with no prisons at all, but every nation, friend and foe alike all have prisons.
Holy people don't have magic bat pones. Holy books don't have magic powers. Economic views also don't mean the individual will only do good. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution. Unfortunately evolution does not care which wins. Fortunately for our species, we do have the ability to think about how we interact with each other. Fortunately humans can chose to be non violent when we chose.
