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21/06/17
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Originally posted by Osi
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GZ
Yeah .... you correct on this one. I worked with a lady from Hungary who was a small child at the end of WWII. Towards the end the family was eating rats which maybe one reason shy she brought huge cakes to work for morning tea. One contained 8 litres of cream. She said that Red Army soldiers (including female soldiers) would pull people off the street for orgies. For that reason her mother stitched her older sisters into a mattress (perhaps not a good hiding place) when the Red Army entered their village. Rape was wholesale. There wasn't much left of the village later because the Germans counter attacked and retook the zone for a while.
Back to the topic .... and I could apply Birdman's post to any religion within the Judeo-Christian- Islamic tradition if I were to take the Book of Deuteronomy, apply the most narrow interpretations of each word and apply them out of context. Fundamentalists ( most Wahhabi's included) wrongly believe that words can have real meaning without context or contextual priority. This is the nub of the problem. And so as the idiots we are, people trust self appointed religious fools that are completely incapable of understanding what they are reading and then go to war over it. In the case of the ME, despotic regimes select and appoint anger preaching religious fools (so called teachers) for no other reason than the maintenance of power.
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Sure, some religious leaders may condone rape, but the Rabbi was the first one I heard of okaying it, and almost recommending.
Osi, re " In the case of the ME, despotic regimes select and appoint anger preaching religious fools (so called teachers) for no other reason than the maintenance of power." ........... Why did I suddenly see a vision of John McCain's ugly face in front of me when I read that?
GZ