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In reply to the discussion: Video-Amina: Topless Tunisian Protester Tells Femen She Was Beaten,Kidnapped & Drugged By Her Family [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)..which is that in any given generation, people may go to their respective 'holy book' and interpret it literally, and seek to live by it's contents as exactly as possible.
i contend that any liberal or progressive advances one part of society makes will be undermined by these populations of people who can simply go to the book and, from the text, resurrect traditions that are increasingly out of sync with an ever-more progressive society.
the polarization increases because the orthodox and fundamentalist populations are always stuck at the same point in the evolution of social ethics. that one same point given by an *unchanging text*.
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trying to make this about *me* attacking islam is just silly. i am talking about the fact that the bible, koran, upanishads, etc. demand adherence to patently immoral (in our age) religious beliefs, and that these beliefs will *never* go away as long as they are *written down* that way.