Can you really apply terms like "pedophile" to someone form an age long before women were more than property, and there was no age of consent to speak of? What then of all the Christian leaders who took child brides in the Middle ages? Were they compelled by their Christian god, like the Catholic priests seem to be today?
There is no peace, there is passion. Through passion I gain strength Through strength I gain power Through power I gain victory Through victory my chains are broken The force sets me free
So: Pissing people off == win. At least for Sith...:)
What, you fuckwad try and twist the rules so that it's not really repression of speech unless the death penalty involved?
Sorry, only that former British colony across the Atlantic is barbaric enough to practice the death penalty among Western nations. Abolition of the death penalty is a requirement for all countries seeking EU membership, for instance.
Communism, as an unattainable goal, can be seen as a materialistic faith in its own right. But the police state erected by Lenin and continued by Stalin had little to do with that dream, and was just continuation of feudalism under a different structure (the Tsar replaced with the Politburo).
But do you need a god (or more) in order to call something a religion?
Yes, fundamentalist Islam has turned out to have adopted too many features of old Torquemada-era Catholicism. But don't forget that the largest Islamic population in the West are in the United States. But why is it OK for group A to claim their cultural superiority, but wrong for group B to do the same?
Nonsense, Islam is traditionally very pro-science since it is considered a good thing to study the "creation". In fact, back when the Catholic church frowned at anyone questioning the Aristotelan world view, they were doing major research.
However, much like literal-Bible Jews and Christians, they do not like "humans and primates evolving from a common ancestor" science.
I thought only the Adventists fooled themselves into thinking they were Jews that accepted Jesus as the Messiah. To Jews in general, the Messiah has not come yet, and Jesus certainly was not him, since, you know, they remained under the Roman yoke long after his death.
He was a pedophile who founded a death cult with the purpose of promoting his twisted and deranged views.
Is "death cult" the newspeak for army now? He definitely spread his new faith through warfare, not that the European colonization later was any better.
And at least he married the (in modern parlance) underage girl. Catholics abusing their charges do it out of wedlock...
(Why this strange need to apply modern requirements on people from ancient times? Do you think the European kings etc. were any better? Age of consent is a modern concept largely driven by the women's liberation movements, back then women of any age were treated more like property.)
Your "requirements" for Islam to be accepted sounds like someone "requiring" the Republicans to become more like the Democrats to be acceptable as a party. And there are plenty of Christians that lack "decent views on homosexuality and women's rights", so maybe we should deny them the status of religion too?
It's talking about Muhammed, but why it should be apostasy is unclear: After all, there have been made movies around him (but where they were careful to keep Muhammed off-screen and silent).
I assume tweeting the above text is not a felony in Kuala Lumpur, so they have no business doing this.
You mean people should become ineligible for extradition if they flee to a country where their act is legal? If someone has underage sex in the U.S. he can then flee to a country where the act would be legal, and he would be in the clear?
Why not? It's just a different interpretation of the same tradition. Any religion is as "legitimate" as another.
Sure, a very vocal group of haters in both camps do not "accept" nonbelievers. But there are also Protestants that do not consider Catholics to be Christians...
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Modded troll? Someone is bloody touchy.
As if Jesus was any better. "Let the children come unto me - so that I can cum into them". Bloody pedophile ring disguised as a church.
We Worship His Shadow.
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Can you really apply terms like "pedophile" to someone form an age long before women were more than property, and there was no age of consent to speak of? What then of all the Christian leaders who took child brides in the Middle ages? Were they compelled by their Christian god, like the Catholic priests seem to be today?
Nonsense.
There is no peace, there is passion.
Through passion I gain strength
Through strength I gain power
Through power I gain victory
Through victory my chains are broken
The force sets me free
So: Pissing people off == win. At least for Sith... :)
You mean like they did back in the 1970? The OPEC-driven "oil crisis"?
No, some have prosthetics which make them partially of the "mineral kingdom".
What, you fuckwad try and twist the rules so that it's not really repression of speech unless the death penalty involved?
Sorry, only that former British colony across the Atlantic is barbaric enough to practice the death penalty among Western nations. Abolition of the death penalty is a requirement for all countries seeking EU membership, for instance.
Are you proposing the death penalty for saying "Saudi Arabia"? Sicko!
Communism, as an unattainable goal, can be seen as a materialistic faith in its own right. But the police state erected by Lenin and continued by Stalin had little to do with that dream, and was just continuation of feudalism under a different structure (the Tsar replaced with the Politburo).
But do you need a god (or more) in order to call something a religion?
Yes, fundamentalist Islam has turned out to have adopted too many features of old Torquemada-era Catholicism. But don't forget that the largest Islamic population in the West are in the United States. But why is it OK for group A to claim their cultural superiority, but wrong for group B to do the same?
Nonsense, Islam is traditionally very pro-science since it is considered a good thing to study the "creation". In fact, back when the Catholic church frowned at anyone questioning the Aristotelan world view, they were doing major research.
However, much like literal-Bible Jews and Christians, they do not like "humans and primates evolving from a common ancestor" science.
Meanwhile, the United States has been "under God" since the 1950s. Before then it apparently was under Satan...
At least movies do better, since it probably is illegal to "bomb at the box office" now...
Yes, they even practice the death penalty! Which (most of) the West has abandoned as the barbaric practice it is. With one notable exception...
Your lack of knowledge can fill an ocean. Maybe you can go look at the Taj Mahal as one of many cultural expressions in Islam.
I thought only the Adventists fooled themselves into thinking they were Jews that accepted Jesus as the Messiah. To Jews in general, the Messiah has not come yet, and Jesus certainly was not him, since, you know, they remained under the Roman yoke long after his death.
... and the Catholics have stopped burning people form those cults at the stake - but why did they stop? I mean, they still don't agree with them.
He was a pedophile who founded a death cult with the purpose of promoting his twisted and deranged views.
Is "death cult" the newspeak for army now? He definitely spread his new faith through warfare, not that the European colonization later was any better.
And at least he married the (in modern parlance) underage girl. Catholics abusing their charges do it out of wedlock...
(Why this strange need to apply modern requirements on people from ancient times? Do you think the European kings etc. were any better? Age of consent is a modern concept largely driven by the women's liberation movements, back then women of any age were treated more like property.)
Your "requirements" for Islam to be accepted sounds like someone "requiring" the Republicans to become more like the Democrats to be acceptable as a party. And there are plenty of Christians that lack "decent views on homosexuality and women's rights", so maybe we should deny them the status of religion too?
Same goes for Jews (Talmud), and there is no shortage of Christians who demand that laws should be based on the Bible...
All religions are after all power structures and control systems, much like the role of laws in the first place.
It's talking about Muhammed, but why it should be apostasy is unclear: After all, there have been made movies around him (but where they were careful to keep Muhammed off-screen and silent).
I assume tweeting the above text is not a felony in Kuala Lumpur, so they have no business doing this.
You mean people should become ineligible for extradition if they flee to a country where their act is legal? If someone has underage sex in the U.S. he can then flee to a country where the act would be legal, and he would be in the clear?
Saudi Arabia is strongly monotheistic state, holding Mecca and Medina; to want a synagogue there is like wanting a mosque in the Vatican.
Good thing Christians and Jews never kill anyone then...
What? Islam recognizes the Jewish prophets, plus Jesus, but consider Muhammed to be the last (Ahmaddiya nonwithstanding).
Why not? It's just a different interpretation of the same tradition. Any religion is as "legitimate" as another.
Sure, a very vocal group of haters in both camps do not "accept" nonbelievers. But there are also Protestants that do not consider Catholics to be Christians...