Never swear at God... / 7 May 2008
A Turkish barber working in Saudi Arabia has been condemned to execution, based on testimony that he had sworn at God during a personal quarrel. (Think of it as a Muslim equivalent of denouncing the Holy Spirit: completely unforgivable.) | New here? Create an account. Search civilbrights.netQuotesOur civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry. —Thomas Jefferson No longer are we satisfied with the fiction of things. We want them in their full reality. —Mikhail Bakunin I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. —Aleister Crowley The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. —Friedrich Nietzsche |