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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  I don't really approve of the website this is on, but I was searching for a list of punishments, and this one fit the bill pretty well. It's hard to deny explicit quotations from the Bible. Ten Commandments
These aren't teachings of violence, no. They're commandments. |
Wow, these are actual direct quotes?
This looks very much like a rigid system for the control of the masses to me. Breaking any of these commandments is punishable by death despite the fact that killing is explicitly forbidden by one of them. And of course leaving the religion is punishable by death in itself. People wonder where extremist Muslim groups came from, but Islam has Judeo-Christian roots and those extremists simply take these things very literally. I think the only way humanity will come together is when religion ceases to exist (at least in its current form). Religion as it is today only serves to distance us from one another, not bring us together.