This is a truly remarkable story, and really puts into context the absolute fire-breathing idiots, the misinformed imbeciles that we have to put up with. Quote from the BBC:
The most senior judge in Saudi Arabia has said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes.
Yes, you read that right. The MOST SENIOR JUDGE in Saudi Arabia has given permission, endorsement if you will, for the killing of broadcasters for broadcasting what he deems to be immoral programmes. Let’s break this down.
Firstly, people will now attempt to kill the station owners, and no doubt their employees, because of this statement made by an absolute bigoted idiot. People may very well die. Secondly, what on earth is immoral? Who judges? Him? The prospective murderers? Their holy book? Let’s be honest, every holy book is unspecific when it comes to morality, there are grey areas. Language is ambiguous. So even of you do believe in a holy book, can you really truly understand it’s intentions? Quite frankly, if I was a Muslim and I saw this statement being made, I’d really start to reconsider the company I keep. Do I really want to be part of a movement where one of it’s more senior and influential members believes that murder is a less serious crime than broadcasting provocative television shows? Does that make sense to ANYONE?
This is what we’re up against. Biggotry, fear and idiocy.
Just because some fundamentalist is prepared to go to this extreme doesn’t mean that basically your average Jo God-worshipper is part of a conspiracy of “absolute fire-breathing idiots” and “misinformed imbeciles.”
Remember that under Communist Russia many thousands lost their lives because of their “treason” in attemping to worship God (and not the State).
Let’s break this down.
Firstly, people attempted to kill the priests and bishops, and no doubt many of their followers, because of this statement made by an absolute bigoted idiot. People certainly died. Secondly, what on earth is treason? Who judges? Him? The prospective murderers? Their ‘holy’ laws? Let’s be honest, every code of law is unspecific when it comes to morality… Quite frankly, if I was an atheist and I saw this statement being made, I’d really start to reconsider the company I keep. Do I really want to be part of a movement where one of it’s more senior and influential members believes that murder is a less serious crime than going to Church a few times a week? Does that make sense to ANYONE?
This is what we’re up against. Biggotry, fear and idiocy.
During Stalin’s years at the Georgian Orthodox Seminary of Tiflis where he was studying to be a priest, he became an atheist and simply changed ideologies converting to nationalism.
Mao to Pol Pot was educated in a Buddhist monastery and a private Catholic institution in Phnom Penh.
These sad individuals were brainwashed with religious “morality” from a young age.
… and then abandoned it when they came up with their own ideologies. If Stalin had become a priest, Mao a Buddhist monk and Pol Pot stayed Catholic, none of them would have committed the atrocities they did (at least consistently) … Psy, you forgot Robert Mugabe, by the way, also Catholic educated.
The risk of a true Christian education is precisely that it teaches you to think… (obviously fundamentalism aside). It is not hard to see how someone who understands injustice could come to hate the perpetrators. However, Christianity is abandoned at exactly the point that this one aspect becomes the cornerstone of an ideology.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I find it hard to believe that anyone could not just love the story of Bethlehem even if you think it a pure fairy tale….
The story of Bethlehem, isn’t that the one with Orion’s Belt/The Three kings? I find it interesting how Sumerian astronomy/astrology is personified into a story like that.
And yes I did have a nice holiday, I hope your’s was as nice.
No, it’s the one about the census, Mary and Joseph riding to Bethlehem on a donkey, no room at the inn, the stable, the angels, the shepherds … you must have heard it….
The three kings have to wait until Epiphany to arrive (that’s next week in the liturgical calendar), so you can save your Sumerian nonsense for then. [It is nonsense, of course. Which Sumerian poem specifically are you referring to?]
It is nonsense, of course.
Of course it’s nonsense, it’s the base of modern religion.