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Originally Posted by Unfaithfully Metalhead
Please do not mistaken my opinion or anyone's opinion (including yours) as being a expert. But to quote your story :
"There is no interfaith marriage among Arabs. Catholics here are Christian by faith and Muslim by culture, and in this community it is forbidden for Christians to marry Muslims. It's not good. It's a tribal mentality. I don't accept it, but it is the culture," he said.
They are arabs/muslims by heart... a true modern christian would not condone and much less participate in such a act... if they did they are not really christian and do not believe in the commandment of Thou Shalt not Kill...
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They are a Christian family living in a Muslim community. The culture in which they're surrounded influenced their actions. That doesn't make them not Christian. They're true Christians just as any other Christian who's murdered somebody. Don't try to spin the story into something that it's not. A Christian family stoned one of their own to death. "Muslim by culture" means not that they're Muslims, but that they have adapted to the Muslim (or more accurately extremist Arab) culture in which honor killing is acceptable. Your argument was that a Christian would not do this, but they do. This was merely the first entry in a google search, so I'm sure there's plenty more.
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Originally Posted by Unfaithfully Metalhead
I agree somewhat with this statement except you forget they only seem to get about 6 months for "honor killings" and really the punishment should fit the crime.. they should get stoned to death..
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First of all, that post wasn't even addressing honor killings, and secondly, we don't live under the rule of Hammurabi. Eye for an eye is antiquated and obsolete barbarism and is unacceptable in a reasoned, civil society.
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Originally Posted by ohiogrinder
ok, then show me proof in the last 50 years another religion which still does this.
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It's not a religion you stupid fuck, it's a culture. Disgracing one's family isn't about the religion.