"They have moved as far from the Koran (Qoran? Q'ran? I dunno) as we have from the New Testament... The rank and file will stop then and of that I have no doubt."
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And meanwhile, tell that to the woman who is going to be stoned to death next week. The teenage girl who has been raped and so is going to be caned publicly on her bare bottom for 'impurity'. The young man who shoplifted a bit of stuff and is going to lose his right hand. The woman who rather likes what she knows of Christianity and wouldn't mind looking into it a bit further, but knows it will be no use because they will shoot her if they suspect she is thinking of converting.

I am sure it would be a great consolation to them. As much as it would have been to those being burned in the Act-of-Faith by the Holy Office in Spain, had they but known that 500 years later the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church would be ever so sorry about it.

All very well 'of that having no doubt'. But these things are happening NOW. And you know it. And if you don't know it, try google. Some may have 'moved on'; and won't that be a fat lot of comfort to the man looking at the bloody stump at the end of his arm & the girl unable to sit on her contused buttocks!

~M~