RE: Liberal Movement in Islam or Western Islam, the fight against islamic extremism
December 19, 2019 at 1:31 am
(July 19, 2010 at 2:16 pm)theophilus Wrote:(July 17, 2010 at 2:29 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Turkey is usually held up as the standard secular/muslim state, seems to be a lot better than most of the others but I stand to be corrected.This has been true in the past
Didn't Turks lock their wives in the house/ apartment and then never let them step outside until quite recently and perhaps still do it today?
For instance, there's a 1986 German film called "40 Quadratmeter Deutschland" about that practice.
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"
