Re:How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40M
by xacaxulu on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:05AM
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One could argue that some the worst things happen precisely when you think you have god on your side. In the paraphrased words of Christopher Hitchens, "The suicide bombing communities and the child genital mutilation communities are almost entirely faith-based."
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This is false, see http://cpost.uchicago.edu
About half of all suicide bombings are secular.
(I don't know about child genital mutilation)
Yes, but it's taboo (this will get downvoted hard) to point out that neither the Christian nor Jewish communities are involved in such activities.
(Not that Christians and Jews as a group are sinless, of course.)
Re:How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40M
by homonculus1 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:34AM
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Christians and Jews are pretty heavily involved in child genital mutilation.
Yes, but circumcision doesn't seem to have any long-term effects on genital function. Yes, there are arguments back and forth in the medical community, but it's not an obvious mutilation.
Re:How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40M
by dougmany on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:27PM
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I have found in life that when people say obvious, they really mean unexamined. If you have the courage to honestly know the damage done, you will see mutilation.
You are wrong sorry. Plenty of Christian mutilation of female genitalia is permanently disfiguring and removes their ability to have pleasure during sex.
Any mutilation is horrible just because it isn't so bad does not excuse it at all.
I'm sorry, but I've never heard in all my decades of life about female mutilation among Christians. Can you point to some credible evidence?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507121/ By all means
>Practice of FGM has no relationship with religion. Muslims and Christians practice it, but it is more widely spread in Christian predominated parts of Nigeria.[2]