Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I just don't understand

I don't understand how I can read about injustice and no longer feel anger. I don’t understand how to the world can watch others suffer and do nothing. I don’t understand how religion can be used as a weapon one day and help up as an ideal the next. I don’t understand how Islam is called the religion of peace while at the same time it leaders conduct a Islamic version of the Spanish Inquisition on its believers. I just don’t understand. I don’t want to understand. I just want it to end.

Saudi judge sentences pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes for committing adultery

I don’t have words…

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Jack 119p · 844 weeks ago

I hear you! Sometimes it really is mind-boggling. It is times like these that I'm especially glad to be on the side of reality.
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Mike aka MonolithTMA · 844 weeks ago

Judges like that almost make me wish there was a hell for them to go to.
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mikespeir · 844 weeks ago

What makes you feel so angry is that you feel so helpless to do anything about it. I wonder, what would I do if I were all-powerful, like God is supposed to be? Well, not being all wise, I don't know everything I might do, but I'd sure as hell start out by protecting this poor woman from her persecutors. Then I'd cook up something appropriate for the rapists and the idiot judges of Saudi Arabia.
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Goddless_Woman 43p · 844 weeks ago

Exactly when I read stories like this one I fee so helpless. I really wish that there was something that I could do to help this woman and others like her. I just don't understand the mindset of the judge that would order a punishment like this one. Religion is so messed up I am very glad that I am rational, but I wish there were more atheists like me.
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Baconsbud 96p · 844 weeks ago

I think there is something you can do Goddless and if enough of us do it we can change things. Instead of just using your vote to change things do what you do on this blog make comments on religious blogs. Yeah I know it seems like nothing is changing but if you look at the polls of religion being a factor in peoples lives it keeps getting smaller as each year passes. Who knows what might cause one already having doubts to come to the non-religious side.
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Mojoey 107p · 844 weeks ago

Change based on the one mind at a time approach. I like it. I hope it works.
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Procrustes 57p · 843 weeks ago

Updated my post on Shar'iah Law with this. Thanks for bringing it to attention, Mojoey. I cringe whenever shit like this happens, and I long to see a world vacant of this abuse.
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Mojoey 107p · 843 weeks ago

I'll have to read your post. I smell a cross post coming.
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looptheloop 53p · 843 weeks ago

I know exactly how you feel. I've been feeling like that a lot lately. I recently had a discussion on another blog with a Muslim about how Saudi Shariah Law is backwards and that adulterers and homosexuals get stoned to death. He asked me how that was morally wrong!!

It's sad that people think that way. It's even more upsetting to see people act on those beliefs and thoughts in such barbaric ways.

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