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reply posted on 12-1-2009 @ 06:04 PM by Unit541
reply to post by Dracula23


There are plenty of cases of the "punishment not fitting the crime", and plenty of them in places other than Iran. Why don't you gripe about those?

It's the way they do things. Who do you think you are to tell them that the way they've been living for thousands of years is wrong because you don't feel the same way, or believe the same thing you do. Who's more wrong? The person who breaks their vows and cheats on their spouce? Or the legal system that upholds the consequences that were laid out PRIOR to the offense taking place.

The lesson here, is if you live in Iran, and want to "play the field", do it before you're married.

This specific scenario is nothing but an illustration of how much more importance their culture places on a persons word. Cheating on your spouse is punishable by stoning. If you're not willing to be buried in sand and have rocks chucked at your skull, keep it in your pants. End of story.

There's probably some alien race out there who vaporizes it's citizens when they're caught going 5 light years an hour over the galactic speed limit. If that's the way they do things, who are we to tell them it's wrong.

So you, my friend, give me a break. You're just like every other fanatic on the planet, trying to make everyone believe what you believe, live how you do, and see everything from your perspective, because yours is the only one that's right. You've been a member here for 3 whole days, and every one of your posts is nothing but hate propaganda against Muslims.


reply posted on 12-1-2009 @ 06:09 PM by SLAYER69
reply to post by Unit541


Exactly since when did we become the worlds ethics police?

Why should anybody think they should decide what other cultures should follow? Why follow outsiders version of morality?


reply posted on 12-1-2009 @ 06:10 PM by Dracula23

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reply posted on 12-1-2009 @ 07:39 PM by SLAYER69
reply to post by karl 12


Karl I would agree with you but Iran was taken over from the Shaw by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian government was set up by and answers to their religious leaders.


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 04:56 PM by karl 12
reply to post by sir_chancealot


I suspect your just attempting to justify abrahamic lore - which to my mind is one of the most sociopathic inventions of any religion.
I also suspect if it were up to some extremist christians we'd also be stoning and murdering adulterers here in the West.

Just why are certain religious people so obsessed with the sex lives of people they have never met?

Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. ~Andrew Lias

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. ~H.L. Mencken

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~Butch Hancock



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reply posted on 14-1-2009 @ 10:26 AM by karl 12
Originally posted by mrsdudara
karl, those quotes cracked me up!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for the laugh. Im emailing those to some friends of mine today.



MrsDudara -you're welcome
Theres plenty more here - including the classics:
www.belowtopsecret.com...

"Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy".
H.L. Mencken


"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't."
George Bernard Shaw


"There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters".
Anon


"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it".
G.K. Chesterton



As for keeping on track with the topic of the thread,I think this ones apt:

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction".
Blaise Pascal





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