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Originally Posted by blankall
If you interpret any holy text literally it can be used to promote some pretty awful stuff.
It seems like any religion can arbitrarily pick passages that can be used to oppress others.
For instance there are many jews and christians who might use the bible as proof that gay marriage shouldn't be illegal but then totally ignore other laws on the grounds they are obscure or outdated.
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well my point was that Islam is based on the writings in the Quran, so it directly oppresses free speech and it's not just the governments in charge like the previous poster suggested. i am fully aware of how hypocritical most religions are in the world, they all pick and choose the passages they want to believe from their "word of God" books and conveniently ignore the stuff they don't agree with