(April 23, 2011 at 4:32 pm)ruhollah Wrote: Listen the punishment is there to DETER adultery......... Just like the electric chair is there to DETER homicides.
These things happen whether or not there's deterrence.
And do you believe that these two crimes are equally harmful and equally deserving of execution? Hurting people's feelings can't even COMPARE to murder.
(April 23, 2011 at 4:32 pm)ruhollah Wrote: If someone commits a moral slip such as adultery, they are encouraged to not go and BOAST about it and LIE about it if your spouse asks. Anything to keep the family/marriage together.
Those who witnessed the act, live and can give every little detail are encouraged to keep quiet and don't go public about it. These encouragements all come from the prophet.
So it's okay to LIE in your honest, tight-knit communities? And you're saying that adultery is not a big deal as long as it doesn't go public and cause negative feelings?
Hushing it up, pretending it didn't happen, and avoiding responsibility. What kind of morality is that?
(April 23, 2011 at 4:32 pm)ruhollah Wrote: Typically when stoning occurs, it is the sinners who go A. either public about it and ask for the punishment as a means to REPENT or B. militant adulterers who commit live adultery in public and have NO REMORSE about it. ex. A man who has sex with another women in front of HIS OWN children.... no soul/remorse whatsoever.
So either the wrongdoer asks to be stoned to death, or he's boasting about it with no remorse.
If someone genuinely wants to die because he believes that's the only way to repent, that's a result of religious brainwashing and it's truly a tragedy.
If he's boasting without remorse, then he's an asshole. But he still doesn't deserve death. Publicly humiliate him, expel him from the community, ANYTHING else. Better yet, work together as a community to repair the damaged relationships. Why is death the only solution?
(April 23, 2011 at 4:32 pm)ruhollah Wrote: When a trial is being taken (which is so RARE that not even a PORN STUDIO in saudi arabia would be put into trial), all 4 witness must give the same EXACT details, DNA test is to occur and then those who commited the act are ask if they want to plead not guilty due to insanity. The judge and jury are not bloodthirsty and waiting for you to slip, they give you every opportunity to avoid such sentence.
If you look at most of the modern religious countries, such a sentence has not occurred in the last couple of centuries.
Whether or not it's a rare occurrence, it's still disgusting, and impossible to justify. So what if he's guilty? This 'sentence' shouldn't even exist, it shouldn't even be an option. By murdering him, you're committing a MUCH greater crime.