RE: Stoning the Adulterer is Effective Because?
September 15, 2013 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2013 at 8:59 pm by AtheistCreed.)
(September 15, 2013 at 8:50 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: A muslim tried to convince me stoning is actually the act of flicking tiny stones at someone to signify that you disapprove of them. I don't buy that, but I think it's not too bad if the "progressives" truly believe that than the actual stoning (throwing big stones at people). Of course it'd be much better if they didn't believe any of this at all.
Well I don't have to be an ex-Muslim to tell you that this is not true at all.
In fact, in Iran, there is a legal ruling about the size of stones used:
Article 104 – The size of the stone used in stoning shall not be too large to kill the convict by one or two throws and at the same time shall not be too small to be called a stone.
And if flicking small stones at someone as a matter of symbolism is true then there wouldn't be any hadith about anyone actually dying from stoning in Muhammad's lifetime. But in fact stoning is intended to be a death penalty.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/...shment.htm
Includes links to the ahadith about stoning ^
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” - Marcus Aurelius
