RE: 8 Countries Where Atheism Is Accepted, Even Celebrated, Instead of Demonized
January 17, 2013 at 4:13 pm
(January 17, 2013 at 3:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Oh, good. Let's compare ourselves to fucking Saudi Arabia so you don't have to feel so bad about the republicunt fuckheads who are running things in Mississippi.
Well, the statement in contention is "The levels of religiosity in this country rival that of many Muslim theocracies".
That does narrow down the Islamic states that qualify to only a few of the most backward. In that subset, the religous oppression probably does surpass even those commonly found in Alabama.
However, Saudi Arabia is arguably not a "theorcracy", even if regliously extremely conservative, so comparing Alabama to Saudi Arabia does not address the originsal contention.