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Topic started on 22-5-2008 @ 12:33 PM by eradown

FLDS Human Rights Violations are Fraud Reminiscient of KGB


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In his book The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn talks about how strange it was when he first realized that he was being arrested in a large crowd of people on the most specious of pretexts by the Soviet KGB. His life was instantaneously changed forever for the worse. He had done nothing wrong, yet there was also nothing he could do to preserve his freedom, because if he had cried out, no one in that large crowd would have believed (dared to believe?) his word vs. that of the KGB agents.

The state of Texas has now gone the KGB one step better: 416 children and their mothers have been arrested in a much larger crowd, and you are statistically likely to be part of that crowd of people who think that the FLDS people had it coming.

You are oh so wrong.
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reply posted on 27-5-2008 @ 09:34 PM by Anonymous ATS
I generally am very much against the interference of the state with religious affairs, communities, and beliefs, as much as I am against the imposition of religious beliefs onto public affairs and policies. I am also wary of mainstream religious groups (e.g. Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, and Catholics, to name just a few) who call other belief communities "cults" and label their beliefs as outrageous. ALL institutionalized religions are cults with outlandish beliefs (Christian church institutions, as we all know, believe in magic: e.g. immaculate conceptions, virgin births, people rising from the dead; miraculous waters that cure the sick, and the face of Jesus in a water stain on the side of a building or in the pattern of bark on trees.) However, I'm disturbed by comments on this blog claiming that all charges against this group are trumped up, and especially the claim that the rate of sexual abuse in this group is probably no more than in other groups. Yes, this kind of abuse happens in other cults, such as in the Catholic church. (No surprise there.) But the the problem here is that this group holds as one of its most prominent beliefs that men may use women and girls the way they want, and that they can force these females to marry them. Most Christian institutions are misogynist in character (Thank you, St. Paul!), but most of them, at least, do not state as a doctrine the right of men to have sexual relations with female minors and with their own female relatives, and as many of them as they can acquire. So please let's not get too carried away with sympathy for this group. This is abuse, plain and simple.
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