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Thread #89982 Message #1704786
Posted By: frogprince
28-Mar-06 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Religious law
Subject: RE: BS: Religious law
JohnInKansas, I don't know if a bunch of "birds of a feather" have "flocked together" in you area, or what. I had way too much involvement with rigid fundamentalists for about 30 years. Our local area has more than it's share of the very far-right: rabidly (so-called) "pro-life", anti gay rights, Pat Robertson supporters, and others whom I have "had it up to here" with long ago. I've heard some of them promote harsh discipline of children that I am uncomfortable with to say the least, but I've never known any of them to teach the kind of brutality found in the material you've linked. What really stands out for me is that I've flat-out never heard any of them advocate a man laying a hand of physical force on his wife. I'm really not saying this to question either your integrity or your ability to evaluate what you see around you. I guess I'm just trying to make sense of the disparity in our experience.