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To: sandbar; All

Afghanistan has never left the 7th century, and their clerics like it that way.

Islam in such places is, from a "how religion is practiced" perspective, like the western Christian empire in the dark ages, before the Reformation; when Popes "annointed" secular rulers, and could make or break them, and religious apostasy was a capital offense.

Martin Luther began to part ways only at the most "spiritual" transgression of that religious-based rule, with bishops handing out forgiveness of sins for a "donation"; as if that "forgiveness" could even come from them in the first place; like the Afghan clerics demand that it can only be dispensed by them.

They, and their religious attitude is what most offends God.


35 posted on 03/23/2006 1:38:37 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli
Afghanistan has never left the 7th century, and their clerics like it that way.

So if someone rounds up the clerics and "gets medieval on their ass" they'd still be a few centuries ahead?

55 posted on 03/23/2006 1:57:36 PM PST by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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