Why does god want to cut off women's hands?

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Don't think you are so much better than the Turk, G-C. Your stupid ass religion is merely older and has had more time to mature. One does not need to go back too far in time to see how brutal you fine xtian bastards were.

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in the Sixteenth Century, under the reign of Henry VIII, as many as 72,000 people are estimated to have been executed. Some common methods of execution at that time were boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering. Executions were carried out for such capital offenses as marrying a Jew, not confessing to a crime, and treason (Bedau 3).

The number of capital crimes in Britain continued to rise throughout the next two centuries. By the 1700s, 222 crimes were punishable by death in Britain, including stealing, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren