(April 13, 2017 at 7:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All they want is for someone to tell them that their barbarism is good because allah approves. That they get. Catholics used to get it from the pope. Protestants used to get it from Luther and Calvin. These days they get it from Pat Robertson.
It's all the same shit.
Islamic churches -institutions that issue religious sentences/fatwas-, spread across the Middle East as a second hand man for governments.
The role of the fatwas just serve the government, or aim to keep the masses locked in a certain mindset.
Egypt has the "Azhar", Saudi Arabia has "Council of Senior Scholars", Iran has Special Clerical Court,on actual grounds these are the Allah of the locals; what they say is what gets carried out. In the essence of the sentences, stoning women and hanging homosexuals give them a religious paint that is enough mask their real service to the government; they do nothing but dual terrorism: unleashing religious hell over the locals, and support governmental corruption on the other hand.
It's a fatal system.
To simple Christians and simple Muslims these systems seem legit; but with a tiny thought it's easy to see that "Allah" means very different things in these theoretical systems.