A nation doesn’t need laws to enforce a great deal of compliance with hijab. Extreme social pressures, up to violence, inside muslim communities does the job rather well, in many cases.
As to your other questions, I’ll try to have some answers for you tomorrow, time permitting. Protracted debates probably aren’t realistic for me today.
[quote]Ren wrote:
John S. wrote:
entheogens wrote:
Another anti-scientific theory many radical christians hold is about the beginning of time. They eschew deep geological time and propose that the world was created a few thousdand years ago. I can’t remember the exact age they give the earth, but basically it is, according to them, just a few thousand years old.
Mind you, I am not saying Christians, in general, believe this. I am talking about the radical Christians. Anybody here want to defend that one?
Now do we have to put that kind of shit into high school textbooks as well. After all, nobody was around (except of course GOD) when the earth was formed, so, you see, deep geological time, is just a theory, just like that gravity stuff :). I am also convinced that the earth is flat.
If it weren’t everything would slide down towards the south pole…hell, we’d all be Australians! That’s my theory and I want it in the textbooks. If you dont do so, I am going to wage a massive campaign (in the LIBERAL MEDIA) denouncing you for not being open-minded
and trying to force your weird, atheistic theories about roundness on innocent children.
Im not hear to defend that im just going to let you know they believe the earth is 6,000 years old. I don’t know how they got that number either.
Beat me to it.
Ahhh, I think someone, somewhere, tried to work out how many generations down from Adam and Eve, using average ages and loads of dumb ideas sprinkled with some religious fervor and a dash of coconut eating T-rexes.[/quote]
Even if you did try and trace generations theres some gaps of time in the bible plus everyone lived a lot longer(for a while). The idea of 6000 years is just retarded. No where in the bible does it state 6000 years.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
PredatorOC wrote:
I don’t hate muslims, but I hate organized religion. Organized religion has always been a political tool. History has shown this too many times.
It has been used for evil but it has also been used for good.
I personally have no use for it.[/quote]
What minimal good organized religion has done for mankind has been negated by the endless oppression. Imagine the things we could do today if science had not been held back by centuries of religious dogma. Or the pointless killing over imaginary friends/deities.
And even the good that organized religion does is self-serving. You can be damn sure, that while some church feeds the hungry in Africa, they will spread their message of oppression as well.
I have nothing against personal beliefs. I’m an agnostic myself. Spirituality seems to be an integral part of mankind and we should explore it. But if in the process we start telling other people what to believe, then we have already strayed from God.
First and foremost, Allah does not want you to watch naughty stuff with porn stars on the internet.
[quote]pat36 wrote:
Equal Women:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6596933.stm
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From the link:
"According to student activists 181 students have received letters warning them not to get involved in politics, while 47 student publications and 28 student organisations have been closed in the last year.
“They threatened me that if I talked to the media it might make things much worse for me,” says Mehdi Aminzadeh, who has been banned from doing a masters in political science because he has been too active in politics.
“But if we keep silent it’s easier for them to do the same things to other people,” he says."
What a wonderful republic!
Please, revolt Iranians!! Come back to civilisation!! We want you!!