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To clarify...
I had not written the text of the previous post. I don't believe in burning books. Though I agree with most of the sentiment. At least with regards to the monotheistic faiths...
I consider myself a taoist/pantheist/shamanist (not shaman, wouldn't dare to be so presumptious), so in a sense, I am religious. But yeah... fuck "Holy Books" that are legalistic. Ones that mandate Stoning... (link is to a Realmedia stoning video in Iran.)
Lest you think stoning is a quick procedure, they bury people in a pit (see image behind cut), drape a cloth over them, and take small rocks to pelt the victim with.
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via: middle-east-info.org:
The penalty for adultery under Article 83 of the penal code, called the Law of Hodoud is flogging (100 lashes of the whip) for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders may be punished by stoning regardless of their gender, but the method laid down for a man involves his burial up to his waist, and for a woman up to her neck (article 102)
Article 104 of the Law of Hodoud provides that the stones should not be so large that a person dies after being hit with two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury. This makes it clear that the purpose of stoning is to inflict grievous pain on the victim, in a process leading to his or her slow death.
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I had not written the text of the previous post. I don't believe in burning books. Though I agree with most of the sentiment. At least with regards to the monotheistic faiths...
I consider myself a taoist/pantheist/shamanist (not shaman, wouldn't dare to be so presumptious), so in a sense, I am religious. But yeah... fuck "Holy Books" that are legalistic. Ones that mandate Stoning... (link is to a Realmedia stoning video in Iran.)
Lest you think stoning is a quick procedure, they bury people in a pit (see image behind cut), drape a cloth over them, and take small rocks to pelt the victim with.
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via: middle-east-info.org:
The penalty for adultery under Article 83 of the penal code, called the Law of Hodoud is flogging (100 lashes of the whip) for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders may be punished by stoning regardless of their gender, but the method laid down for a man involves his burial up to his waist, and for a woman up to her neck (article 102)
Article 104 of the Law of Hodoud provides that the stones should not be so large that a person dies after being hit with two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury. This makes it clear that the purpose of stoning is to inflict grievous pain on the victim, in a process leading to his or her slow death.
( Read more... )
