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Theocracies aren’t different, they are worse
“In 2007, a 19-year-old gang-rape victim in the Saudi city of Qatif was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for meeting with an unrelated male.”
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February 1st, 2010 at 1:14 am
Steve,
I agree with you (although not nearly to your level of extremism) on most your culture/religion posts. Curious, then, how you would respond to the following question (as it has been asked of me during certain debates)- “Obviously, we Americans think things such as the above (the lashes for being raped) are so backwards and counter-progress. However, to someone from that culture, OUR way of living is just as backwards and counter-progress. So, the ‘iranian’ stevesbets would be writing about how crazy we are, and linking to articles about lady gaga and things like that. what makes you specifically, or us in general, any more believable to say our way is “right” versus theirs?”
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:56 pm
they were pardoned, asshole. leave my people alone
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:32 pm
The problem with that question, Heath, is that it does not pertain to what Steve is mentioning here. Comparing a culture and a religion can be two different things, however, a theocracy entwines the two. Therefore someone looking at our culture and saying Lady Gaga makes us a bunch of crazy assholes is not the same as us looking at a muslim theocracy and claiming them to be crazy, because our acceptance of Lady Gaga is not generated by the government which is in turn run according to the laws of a certain god. Now if Muslim countries were to look at our country and decry vice laws that are firmly planted in Christian theology, then the analogy would be apt. I think what Steve means (and I don’t mean to talk for you Steve, this is just how I see it) is that an entire country and all its laws run based off the teachings of a set of rules put forth by a corrupt and (in the case of the woman punished for being raped) very very wrong religion is asinine at best and insane at worst. I think Steve would agree thhat if our country’s entire legal system was run based specifically on rules put forth in the bible, even those that contradict the others, would be just as bad