[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

This is true, but let's be fair, the holy texts - which are the basis for the religion - don't help matters much when they contain scripture that, literally interpreted, calls for atrocious behaviour. Just as, no doubt, atrocities were committed because of the easy, literal interpretation of the Old Testament (there are no more Amalekites). So I take some issue with the notion that the religion itself bears no blame. For example, if the Qu'ran were exactly as it is, except that it did not contain the following passage, things would likely be marginally better for women:


The belief that a scripture is the perfect word of God has behavioural consequences, is what I'm saying. From there, it follows that different scripture will have different behavioural consequences. This couldn't be better illustrated by the fact that fundamentalist Jains behave in a markedly different fashion from fundamentalist Muslims or Jews.

Fundamentalist Christians don't kill people because of wearing clothes made of two different fabrics only because they invented a way to invalidate old laws. It's not the book, it's the culture within the religion