Islamic cleric decrees it OK for Syrian rebels to rape women

[decocker 7,198]

"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."

eta (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)

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[Penny Lane 8,159]

Book sales among Atheists for one.

So he's an atheist who writes books. Not actually any kind of leader.

[GandD 5,966]

Oh the old testament and less convenient new testament passages aren't meant to be taken literally. They're to be taken the way I wish to represent them.

[decocker 7,198]

one of the attractive tenants of athiesm is there's no need for a leader. think for yourself.

Oh the old testament and less convenient new testament passages aren't meant to be taken literally. They're to be taken the way I wish to represent them.

indeed.

[GandD 5,966]

Book sales among Atheists for one.

Guaranteed not to sell as much as this one:

[GandD 5,966]

The Ramayan, The Geeta (Gita), The Bible, the Qur'an, The Communist Manifesto and Quotations from Chairman Mao are widely reported as the most-printed and most-distributed books in the world, with hundreds of millions of copies of each of them believed to be in existence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#More_than_100_million_copies

And I doubt he sells this many books.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I'm the new atheist leader. I'll have t-shirts printed.

I will speak to my audience about ... nothing. And how awesome it is to believe in it.

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[decocker 7,198]

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)

[Danno 1,228]

one of the attractive tenants of athiesm is there's no need for a leader. think for yourself.

I think everyone can see your delusion.

All movements, schools of thought, political ideas have leaders...... even if everyone in agreement doesn't "vote" for them.

Obama is a Left-wing leader..... even if some Leftwingers don't agree w/ him or even like him.

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[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Oh the old testament and less convenient new testament passages aren't meant to be taken literally. They're to be taken the way I wish to represent them.

Yep.

one of the attractive tenants of athiesm is there's no need for a leader. think for yourself.

indeed.

My point exactly. If we look at OT and NT, the Quran is very similar.

[decocker 7,198]

I think everyone can see your delusion.

All movements, schools of thought, political ideas have leaders...... even if everyone in agreement doesn't "vote" for them.

Obama is a Left-wing leader..... even if some Leftwingers don't agree w/ him or even like him.

obama is not at all a left wing leader. sometimes you're just too much.

[Danno 1,228]

The Ramayan, The Geeta (Gita), The Bible, the Qur'an, The Communist Manifesto and Quotations from Chairman Mao are widely reported as the most-printed and most-distributed books in the world, with hundreds of millions of copies of each of them believed to be in existence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#More_than_100_million_copies

And I doubt he sells this many books.

Perhaps you misread my post.

We were discussing Dawkins and what he means to Atheists.

I wrote he is leader in ....

<<<<Book sales among Atheists for one.>>>>

Not world wide Book sales as a whole....... how would that even be possible with so few Atheists in the world?

[decocker 7,198]

i've never read a dawkins book. come to think of it, i've never read anything related to atheism. what would be the point?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

how would that even be possible with so few Atheists in the world?

And according to you, they are drastically "shriveling in numbers" right, Danno?

i've never read a dawkins book. come to think of it, i've never read anything related to atheism. what would be the point?

Me neither. Is there some kind of guide we're supposed to follow?

[decocker 7,198]

Me neither. Is there some kind of guide we're supposed to follow?

i have no idea. i've never been asked to 'sign up' or been told i'm doing it wrong..danno is shaking my non existant faith!