It's an injustice to NOT marry girls aged 10, says Saudi cleric, page 4

Originally posted by DisgustedOne

Originally posted by HunkaHunka
reply to post by yenko13

Oh puhlease.. not 400 hundred years ago Europe was doing the same thing.

This is not so much sick as it is completely alien to western culture today.

I'm not advocating it in any sense of the word, simply saying that let's not act like this is some sort of islamic pedophilia.

Ok... let's get this straight.

The more fundamentalist your religion, the more PRIMITIVE you are. The more PRIMITIVE you are.. the more your values are based on survival of your family lineage and social dominance.

That goes for all religions.

So given the fundamentalist nature of many sects of Islam, this is not unexpected. As I said... 400 years ago Europe was doing the same thing.

I have to disagree with you on your view that all Fundamentalists are primitive in this context. I consider myself a Fundy (Christian) and most of the people I associate with, but we would never, ever condone underage or unmarried girls becoming some perverts property (that really is what this boils down to). And just to clarify, we do not believe that once a woman does marry that she becomes her husbands property. She becomes his partner.

Really? How old was Sarah?

You do realize that lots of the brides in the early OT were quite young don't you? I mean how much fundamentalist can you get really.

What I mean by Primitive is... pressured by a sense of insecurity and need for survival to such a degree that one will accept extreme ideas.

The thing to remember is that Fundamentalists are never a phenomena of NOW they are nothing more than a group of people saying "It was better when..."

Most of the people I associate with are well educated, professional, intelligent people - accountants, doctors, software programmers, technicians, business owners, etc., and we are all fundamental Christians.

Well guess what... how many murderers and perverts are actually well educated, professional, intelligent people? Accountants, doctors, software programmers, technicians and business owners?

You act as if these achievements make someone better somehow.

When in fact we have found that the higher up in power someone in the clergy becomes, the more apt they are to be found a self-loathing homosexual, or a meth head, or a pedophile, or as in the case of the BTK killer... a torturer and murderer.

I'm sorry but someone's education and occupation doesn't relieve them from being completely insance.

But not primitive. Please don't paint with such a broad brush.

I'm sorry, but it's the case. Fundamentalists, although functional, are primitive.

Let me give you an example of the mind frame which is not primitive.

One that is not tied to a sense of insecurity. One that can assume that everything they know is completely false, and be ok with it.

Someone who does not act or think out of fear.

[edit on 22-1-2009 by HunkaHunka]