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The student, Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh, 23…was charged with directly insulting Muhammad by calling the prophet “a killer and adulterer,” the judge, Shamsurahman Muhmand, said in a telephone interview…
Kambakhsh is a student at the faculty of journalism in Mazar-i-Sharif and also works for a daily paper, Jahan-e-Naw, as a reporter. He was accused of downloading a controversial article and adding some of his own paragraphs about the ignorance of the Prophet Muhammad on women’s rights…
You have to ask after a while – does a theocracy, by nature, have to become intolerant?
#18, pedro,
Not to mention that I missed the last execution bradcasted by TV live from the vatican
Get out !!! Geeze, pedro, ya missed a real good one. The guy screamed for mercy while the guy in the mask pushed the splinters a little further under his fingernails. Oh, and then he got the thumbscrew. I swear, it was ready to pop through the other side. And they put that cage on his head with the hungry rat in it.
All the time the Jesuit kept asking him if he was the devil. Every time the guy said no the Jesuit would nod to the guy in the mask.
The best part was at the very end when he finally said “YES, I’M THE DEVIL” and he cried. The big baby cried. Then they put tied him to a post on top of a pile of wood and tossed a flaming faggot on. It is so exciting when the fire build slow like that. Geeze, he was crying so hard I thought he would put out the flames. But that Jesuit just kept praying for his soul.
And as the fire reached higher and higher all he kept saying was “Jesus, why do they do this in your name?”
It was so fun to watch !!! Well, I guess that heathen won’t be a tool of the Devil for a looooong time. But his soul will be in heaven with the baby Jesus.
33 OFTLO. Grand Master-in-training: Will it be ok to proselytize faith with free schools, hospitals, meals, shelter, support groups, group pressure, $ bribes, brainwashing, and unlimited advertising?
RBG
Clarification: voluntary brainwashing & group pressure such as when attending weekly meetings.
RBG
Far off in the future societies will contemplate how we lived toady with religions such as Democracy, Communism and their various sects.
They would study the Religion of Democracy from the first instance with the USA being the “Holy land” with the first “Pope” George Washington upholding the sacred text “The Declaration of Independence” and the “Constitution” written by the ‘Holy’ Fore Fathers.
Of course like all religions, Democracy broke out into various factions and sects all claiming to be the pure faith with the Democrat and Republican sects being predominant.
The followers of Democracy would elect their religious leader every four years, of course there were Bishops, Cardinals and local clergy elected at various times.
I am sure there will be some “Democratic Republics” in the future that will be seen as barbaric with our type of legal system, prisons and capital punishment. 😉
Sounds far fetched? No this is how people lived 2000 years ago and is how people 2000 from now will look back at us. 🙂
Cheers
T_H
How very nice. Except labelling political ideologies as “religious” ones is inaccurate in many ways. It is enough to identify both as being ideologies. That accurately delineates their common aspects. Otherwise they are markedly different and the primary reason for that is that one is based in historical fact and the other in popular mythology. George Washington actually existed.
And you make another large and commonplace error in your last there. Human development, cultural and social, are not measured along a linear graph. That development has followed an exponential curve. We have seen more change in the last 100 years than in the 2000 preceding that.
2000 years in the future? No one, and I mean absolutely no one is remotely foolish enough to suggest that we can even begin to imagine what society will be like 200 years from now. It is utterly, literally inconceivable. Only a few foolhardy souls would even suggest what things might be like, in one or another isolated aspect, in 40 years – and even then, they will concede that they are very likely to be completely wrong.
One thing that IS going to remain the same; the majority of the human species will remain (relatively) poor – and unintelligent. And therefore will contribute, as always, very very little to our progress, but will, as always, markedly hinder that progress, in ways some of which we cannot possibly foresee.
#35 – Will it be ok to proselytize faith with free schools, hospitals, meals, shelter, support groups, group pressure, $ bribes, brainwashing, and unlimited advertising?
Are you saying churches do a lot of public service? A few do. A few do more harm. But I think I was clear but I’ll repeat the important point…
2) Proselytize your faith with the barrel of a gun, and you will be met with overwhelming force and no mercy.
So, no, you won’t be met with forceful opposition by serving food to the homeless in the hypothetical fantasy world where I am the supreme ruler and a harem of scantily clad women lounge around my throne all day, feeding me grapes and pleasuring me.
# 23 Phillep said, on January 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hindus are fighting Moslems in India to keep from being converted or murdered.
This is laughable history revisionism for any honest observer of India.
(I suspect your other “fact” are equally bogus but I’ll address India since I know it well.)
Aggressive Hindu nationalism — as typified by the RSS — is absolutely NOT a self-defensive reaction to Muslims. Activist radical Hindus also famously kill Christians, and Hindu moderates too.
Why don’t you just admit it — you’re an anti-Muslim bigot. It’s not a position to be proud of but at least you could stop torturing facts and logic.
I’ll say it again: most of the major religions* have their violent conservative wings. To single out Islam as unique reveals you to be a intellectual fraud.
(*The one exception may be Buddhism. I’m not aware of any major radical Buddhist movements. Maybe it’s a good testimony of the religion or maybe they are just behind the trend! Or maybe I just need to Google more.)
39 THC. “no one is remotely foolish enough to suggest that we can even begin to imagine what society will be like 200 years from now.”
See, you’re wrong again…
Answer these questions:
Will knowledge of atomic bomb-making become more, or less prevalent over the next 200 years?
Will there be more, or less unstable nations with this technology?
Will more, or less people have access to critical A-bomb materials?
Will more, or less people understand how to build one?
Do any of these people have an absolute surety of the existence of, and requirement to go to, a better and rewarding after-world or heaven?
Do any of these people have an absolute surety that it is their duty and requirement to destroy all infidels and non-believers in the present world?
Do any of these people believe that all innocents killed will forgive them in the next life?
Now go ahead and be foolish…
RBG
There is no doubt the future will see the continuing bifurcation of society into the illiterate bible thumpers and the steady progress of science into all areas of life.
It will be stupid and tragic when the flat earth cave dwellers venture forth, steal some technolocy, and end human life on earth.
Unpleasant, but I’ll go with stupid every time.
Well, RBG, if by ‘predicting the state of society in 200 years time’ you mean predicting that society will be nonexistent due to proliferation of nukes, then fine. Yes, it is very iffy, there even being anything left resembling a society, if certain idiots have their way. All the more reason to do everything possible to wean humanity from their fairytales.
But supposing we are still here, and we are not nuked back to Stone Age, the scientific discoveries and developments of the decades to come will have repercussions which are absolutely unpredictable. With the past as a guide, about the only thing that can be safely said is that a) certain aspects of current society, ones that few would ever suspect, will still be around, fundamentally unchanged, and b) certain other aspects of society, ones that no one expects to change significantly for centuries at the least, will be transformed in ways not merely unexpected, but practically inconceivable, and far, far sooner than anyone could believe possible.
Yeah, I get your point – that’s all moot if the loonies get their hands on certain weapons…
It’s frightening to think that I actually mostly believe in the scenario I presented above. I also completely agree with your point about the unpredictability of future society and mainly used that as a convenient jump-point for an “End is Near” soapbox rave.
If it’s any comfort, I don’t think that it would mean the all-out end of present civilization. Only the destruction of a few major US cities followed by the justifiable invasion of every nation remotely capable of supporting a nuclear attack; the suspension of all global rights; and near-indiscriminate mass incarceration and executions on the basis of the greater need for the self-defence of “humanity.”
RBG