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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I think you misunderstand - I don't believe for a second that this is a cynical attempt to massage passages from holy scripture to suit their desire to have sex with pre-teen girls. Not consciously, anyway. They really, completely believe that this is the right thing to do and that it will bring them closer to God as they understand Him.
It's almost impossible to comprehend coming from a secular Western background that these beliefs could be as self-evident to these people as 2+2=4 is to you and me, but that's really what we're talking about here.
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I edited my post so it's more clear and I wasn't trying to attack you in anyway, if that was the way it was interpreted by chance.
Yeah, these guys are true believers in their own minds. I think that their living on the edge feeds their misplaced experience and they are experiencing something otherwise they wouldn't have a motive for what they do. They feel that they are doing gods work, so they are above any moral code.
Speaking of modern day slavery, it still exists in Islamic Mauritania in a large way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania
Here's what wikipedia says about Islam and slavery.
One of the five pillars of Islam
zakat is meant to encourage Muslims to donate money to free slaves and
bonded labourers in countries where slaves and
bonded labourers may have existed. In the hope that over time there will be no slaves left in that country.
Here's a bit of a story.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/mauritan...sehBbb&v=63383
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I became a slave at age 5. Every day I looked after the herd. Every night I was raped by my master. I always thought, without understanding, that this was normal.
In Mauritania, where I’m from, hundreds of thousands of people are still held this way today. But I was lucky. My brother escaped his masters and found an organisation working to stop slavery. He asked them to help free me. But when they came to take me away, at first I completely refused. I couldn’t imagine a life away from my masters, a life where you worked no matter what, even if pregnant or giving birth. This was the only life I had ever known.
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