Posted on 08/30/2010 5:42:13 AM PDT by SJackson
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Stoning picture looks Photoshopped.
Bill Clinton and members of the Democrat ruling class should go for this.
THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT THREAD!
I will forward it in emails to my non Freep friends.
Its not a stoning....Its an execution.
1 - Jihad just means struggle. It can be from your personal struggle to stop smoking, all the way up to holy war against the infidel.
9 - 3) We forgive the killing of robbers too.
11 - The Bible never abolished slavery either, but regulated it. The Quran does suggest freeing slaves for payment of Zakat (above), as atonement for sins and allowing them contracts to purchase their freedom. OTOH, I believe modern slavery is most common in Muslim nations, even where it is technically illegal but generally tolerated.
16 - Interest is allowed, if you call it by another name.
21 - Beating a wife is an issue of interpretation. Where it is interpreted, it is a last resort, and discouraged in any case.
22 - The rules of divorce depend on the branch of Islam.
24 - Inheriting half was actually an improvement, and while the men get more money, they also have more financial responsibility. Note that the Bible says if there are boys, the girls get nothing.
25 - The woman initiating the divorce is allowed in the Quran. But if you want to see some nasty treatment of women, just read the Bible.
32 - Covering is extremely variable by culture. The Quran says cover to avoid sexual harrassment. The Taliban take it to one extreme, others just say dress conservatively.
Most of the rest are flat-out incompatible with our Constitution. Note that practices in the Bible are incompatible too, but our society has moved beyond that. Sharia law as practiced today would have to change dramatically to be fully compatible with the Constitution.
Dear Lord. This is sick and twisted stuff.
No God we pray to would countenance this evil stuff.
Rauf, like all Moslems, is being more than a little disingenuous. Translation: he’s fulla crap.
I fear that our opponents will not absorb this lesson until the first beheadings of gays and insufficiently modest women are carried out on live television from Yankee Stadium.
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What you are mis-representing there is that not only is the bible a collection of Gods word, a collection of good ways to live your life, it is also a collection of examples of hopw to really mess it up.
Mis-treatemnt of women is NOT a part of how you are guided by this book.
Slavery in the days of the OT was not the ‘involuntary SLAVERY’ depicted in the US 17-1800’s. It was mostly voluntary servitude ‘slavery’.
Practices in the bible and using them as a basis for our foundation and laws is what made this country so successful. Nice try at revisionism.
It doesn't matter, as there is nothing in Christianity that dictates that the Christian's goal is to make the government of his country Christianity-compliant. Christianity is a religion. Its guidelines are for individual practice. Islam is a system, a theo-political construct. There is no Christian equivalent of the concept of Shariah. The goal is a Heavenly kingdom, not an earthly one.
You know, that's a good point. Much of the Bible is simply history, stories from the past. Actually, most of it. The Koran, if I remember correctly, is no such thing. It's a list of rules. A BIG list.
There ARE rules there for us (See the 10 Commandments) but many of the stories of the poeple in the bible start with “And they did evil in the sight of the Lord”.
Where is the wrong, the burden in what Jesus said were the Most Important Commandments?
1) Love the Lord your God with all your heart, strength, soul and mind.
2) Love your neighbor as yourself, for this is like the first.
Just to elaborate, loving your neighbor does NOT mena you buy into all he/she does as ‘right’. If there is wrong, it should be spoken of, in love.
In the end my G!D( YHVH) will kick allah’s ass to hell, end of story.
In the end my G!D( YHVH) will kick allah’s ass to hell, end of story.
If the Christian religion didn't extend to law-enforcement, then explain all those people sentenced to death for heresy and witchcraft, and the fact that adultery is still on the books in Michigan with a maximum punishment of life in prison.
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