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What Religion Hath Wrought.
Iraq: Kurdish girl stoned to death, mob films it on cameraphones
In a short mobile video clip which appears to have been taken by locals at seen of the murder, the girl is seen being ambushed on her way home by a group of up to 1000 men who were waiting for her to return; the men killed her in the most brutal way possible, by throwing large stones on her head. The following clips show that while she is alive and crying for help she is taunted and kicked in her stomach until someone finishes her off by throwing a large stone on her face.
From the clips it appears that the girl was first stripped naked to symbolize that she had dishonored her family and her Yezidi religion. She is lying on the road naked while her smashed face is covered with blood and still breathing.
WARNING! Videos contain extreme violence, watch at your own risk.
How can you believe in a god that would allow things like this? Religion is poison and will be our end.
Haggard.
This guy is so full of crap his eyes are brown. Bought meth, but didn’t use it!? Right. Oh, he just went to a male escort for a massage. Yeah, that sounds aligned with the Christian ethic they so strongly tout. If you weren’t closeted, why not go to a female escort for a massage?
My favorite bit is the first line, “…we’re really glad he [the accuser] failed the polygraph.” Um, if you aren’t guilty then you shouldn’t have had any fear that he wouldn’t fail. If you knew he was lying there’d be nothing to sweat.
Just like the Foley incident this is another result of the continuing intolerance of a lifestyle choice. When did we stop evolving? Come on people, we went from fish to football in a couple of million years, let’s not stop now.
The New Solution
Straying from politics for a moment, the new issue of Wired contains an excellent story about the new-atheism movement, its impact and its implications on the political landscape.
It’s a question you may prefer not to be asked. But I’m afraid I have no choice. We find ourselves, this very autumn, three and a half centuries after the intellectual martyrdom of Galileo, caught up in a struggle of ultimate importance, when each one of us must make a commitment. It is time to declare our position.This is the challenge posed by the New Atheists. We are called upon, we lax agnostics, we noncommittal nonbelievers, we vague deists who would be embarrassed to defend antique absurdities like the Virgin Birth or the notion that Mary rose into heaven without dying, or any other blatant myth; we are called out, we fence-sitters, and told to help exorcise this debilitating curse: the curse of faith.
The New Atheists will not let us off the hook simply because we are not doctrinaire believers. They condemn not just belief in God but respect for belief in God. Religion is not only wrong; it’s evil. Now that the battle has been joined, there’s no excuse for shirking.
Three writers have sounded this call to arms. They are Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. A few months ago, I set out to talk with them. I wanted to find out what it would mean to enlist in the war against faith.
I’m picking up Dawkins’ The God Delusion today, it sounds like an excellent and informative read.