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In reply to the discussion: Pakistan disabled girl arrested for blasphemy [View all]SoapBox
(18,791 posts)17. Sick...and this is what no education looks like.
And the Party of Thug, Bully and Bagger was more religion in our education system?
Me thinks not!
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Yes, but we have laws and a culture that prohibits executing people for "blasphemy"
whathehell
Aug 2012
#29
We have R/R running for president/vp with loads of radical Teabaggers in Congress. We are looking
The Wielding Truth
Aug 2012
#50
? not religion ?!? The girl may be executed for 'desecrating' a 'holy' book
panzerfaust
Aug 2012
#26
Sure, because you see Protestants executing kids every day for blasphemy, Right?
whathehell
Aug 2012
#28
I know something about the Dominionists and yes, they are VERY scary, so much so
whathehell
Aug 2012
#59
I know you and I are not comfortable in bosting our givings. You can not call out the good deeds of
The Wielding Truth
Aug 2012
#54
There is a sizable cadre of people in this country who believe in alien abductions.
whathehell
Aug 2012
#41
Sure, because no one does a bad thing on their own..It's always the "evil MF'ers" from the West.
whathehell
Aug 2012
#71
Sure, because you could find the same thing happening at a Methodist Church in Iowa, right?
whathehell
Aug 2012
#12
Oh yeah...'cuz you think anyone who's not atheist is a right wing Christian "extremist", duh.
whathehell
Aug 2012
#16
Spoken like an atheist whose combined PC and "over reach" has cost them their credibility.
whathehell
Aug 2012
#31
Here we are...yet another tidbit of Christian extremism in this country. Akin's pal:
Arugula Latte
Aug 2012
#42
My point is that religion brings all societies down & the world would be much better off without it.
Arugula Latte
Aug 2012
#51
Fine, but intellectual honesty should keep you from saying "theyre all same"
whathehell
Aug 2012
#53
We have been conditioned to believe that we are a kind and peaceful nation.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
Aug 2012
#10
Well, at least we're not inclined to arrest developmentally disabled children for blaphemy.
whathehell
Aug 2012
#13
It's nice to think one of these mobs together with some Taliban could take over some Pakistani nukes
limpyhobbler
Aug 2012
#24