Is the practice of stoning any more of an atrocity than burning someone alive at the stake because their natural human thoughts and questions differed from the teaching of a priest or just because they did not follow the piper? So the simple solution was to declare them a witch and light the fires; problem solved.
I am not defending Islam in any way, my point was to say there is an awakening of the oppressed within the Islamic states and their screaming out to their divine strength is basic human nature when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds of living past the next day for simply doing so. People live what they learn and if the only learning is to cry out for Allah, it is no different than for you to be yelling out to God for strength. In case you missed it, they were also screaming “Death to the Islamic Regime” and “Death to the Mullahs” as well.
In breaking the Mullah’s lock on thought, they can be free to learn and think about other religions while freely searching their souls for the answers they need to resolve what torments them inside. Truth is a very stubborn thing when it is exposed to the light.
Either support them in their quest to be free or you alienate them to be your enemy forever.
I read about Christianity from the Gospels and from the Apostles and I don’t see anything about stoning. Now, maybe I find some people doing some stoning, but I can’t point back to those Gospels and what Jesus said and what the Apostles said and support the stoning.
IN FACT — what I *can do* is use those very documents to *fight against* what those “stoners” do... you see.
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NOW..., on the other hand, when you’ve got documents that say that *government* is Islam and that you kill and murder and chop off heads and cause *terror* and violently overthrow nations and people and so on until you conquer the entire world — and that *is written* into the very fundamental documents themselves — that “adherent” has *no basis* to fight against these actions — other than “leaving” the evil governmental all-encompassing idealogy of Islam.
So, what I’m saying is that since the Muslim adherent already *knows* these things are *commanded* by their basic writings — they *already know* that the *only alternative* is to declare Islam false, the Prophet false and Allah false. If they don’t — then they are saying that they *believe* them — and thus they *must* go along with all this murder and mayhem and terror and so on...
That’s the difference... it’s in the *basic documents* themselves, not the teachers....