RE: Extremists: a question and a talk
July 17, 2018 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2018 at 3:48 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Recently a 26 yrs old man in Iran was flogged 80 times in public for drinking alcohol at a wedding 10 years ago
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2...s-a-child/
So this is Sharia Law, this is not extremism (or is Sharia Law extremism?)
Iran isn’t what’s ultimately wrong here, it’s the belief that Iran stands for. Islam does not condemn this authoritarian behavior, it celebrates it and sees it necessary to maintain "order".
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2...s-a-child/
So this is Sharia Law, this is not extremism (or is Sharia Law extremism?)
Iran isn’t what’s ultimately wrong here, it’s the belief that Iran stands for. Islam does not condemn this authoritarian behavior, it celebrates it and sees it necessary to maintain "order".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
