What Kind of a Religion Is This?From from a student required to report on current event stories from either a daily newspaper or a weekly newsmagazine.
But I've got a real serious problem with it.
This 13-year old girl had been raped by three men -- and according to Islamic law she had thereby committed adultery. Can there be any more distorted sense of morality than this?
What's a religion without any sense of morality, humanity, or decency?
In Christianity, the Crusades and the Inquisition were responsible torturing and murdering thousands of innocent people -- many of them women who were burned alive "to save their souls." Unpleasant as it might be, it's a part of the history of Christianity that can't be denied or brushed aside. Even today, some radical Christian fundamentalists call for murder and "burning in hell" for those who don't believe as they do. But, you raise a good question for debate: Do religions need to contain a common sense of morality or humanity?
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