ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape- NY times - And what the Times left out
By: kpr37 • islam • 2 comments • 7 years ago
QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.
He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and...
Worshiping at the altar of the god of political correctness: a pagan's perspective
By: kpr37 • political correctness • 6 comments • 7 years ago
Reporting on the "leftist-septicemia-meme"
Now some may not like my title, that's just too bad. Really it is. Political correctness falls under the definition of a religion . (def # 2)
a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons
People worship it's politically correct concepts and ideas as an infallible system of belief. In much...
From a cultural tradition devoted to deicide: An open lament for modernity
By: kpr37 • paganism • 7 comments • 7 years ago
Early 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin deicida ‘killer of a god’, or directly from Latin deus ‘god’ + -cide
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/deicide
The definition says to kill a god. This would have been one of the thousands of various gods, goddess, and demigods.
I come from a long illustrious and distinguished philosophical tradition. One embedded...
Become a public server
By: Coral Atlas • Public Service • 5 comments • 7 years ago
A public server is a human public service volunteer.
What are public services?
Scientific and technological research, self education, volunteering and the development and enhancement of tools.
Public Servers volunteer their services in automated areas that benefit from some human intervention.
Public services that cannot be autonomously performed by robots, AI and automation requires some...
Fetishizing Islam: How we can rest assured that Islam has nothing to do with FGM
By: kpr37 • islam • 7 comments • 7 years ago
Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin is the head priest of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a branch of Islam with thousands of followers in the UK.He is accused of promoting the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-40831992/protests-at-birmingham-mosque-over-controversial-cleric
Another headline brings vivid images to the conscience of...
The "K" word (kafir).....it's a real killer
By: kpr37 • islam • 5 comments • 7 years ago
Kaffir (n.) 1790, "infidel, " earlier and also caffre (1670s), from Arabic kafir "unbeliever, infidel, impious wretch," with a literal sense of "one who does not admit (the blessings of God)," from kafara "to cover up, conceal, deny, blot out."
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Kaffir&allowed_in_frame=0
The "K" word (Kafir) Signifies in a theocratic sense, one who...
Disregarding Danger: Sweden to Deport Christian to Iran
By: CB • Christian-Islam relations • 1 comments • 7 years ago
". . . part of the problem is that migration officials don’t understand why someone would become a Christian and don’t understand what it means to be a Christian. Less than 20 percent of Swedes say they believe in God. This is most apparent when they come to the question when a convert says I converted because of the love I have received from Jesus Christ. And they almost mockingly...
Father of girl on Afghan robotics team killed in ISIS bombing
By: CB • Islam • 14 comments • 7 years ago
This is bigotry I just can not understand on any level. Why are people of faith attacking and killing their own? Why can't they just suffer the loss? And, in the instances of prayers. I just can not relate to this happening.
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(CNN) The father of a member of the Afghan all-girls robotics team that made headlines last month after overcoming US visa obstacles died...
War vs. The Conscientious Objector
By: CB • Religion • 14 comments • 7 years ago
Desmond Doss
Desmond Doss enlisted in April 1942, but refused to kill or carry a weapon into combat because of his personal beliefs as a Seventh-day Adventist. He consequently became a medic, and while serving in the Pacific theatre of World War II he helped his country by saving the lives of his comrades, at the same time adhering to his religious convictions....
How Alex Jones outsmarted Megyn Kelly
By: Dean Moriarty • Badass • 2 comments • 7 years ago
It's important to get both sides of the story.
What Lies Former Director of the FBI James Comey is going to tell Congress
By: Roy_Patterson/we-talk-news • News • 1 comments • 7 years ago
We Don't Need to Create Jobs — We Need to Create Value
By: Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises • default • 6 comments • 7 years ago
An influential left-wing think tank has called for the government to create millions of jobs for those without a college degree, leading to headlines like The Nation’s declaration that “It’s Time for the Government to Give Everyone a Job.”
One fatal flaw of such a plan was exposed in the comments section of that article, when a commentator named Ira Dember pointed out the perverse...