My friend Max, TheDecentAtheist and deconvert of Islam has an interesting post about the pre pubescent boys of the Muslim world. The story is much bigger than the post, but he opens the door to this atrocity of the Abrahamic Mindset in the middle east.
Here is a link if your not familiar with Bacha Bazi (boy play) in the Muslim world, and here is a story outlining the initial accidental investigation. It is prevalent among the clerics, police, and government officials. Only pious, highly moral people can perpetuate this type of evil on this type of scale. Monotheism at its finest.
Simply disgusting. No other way to view it.
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I studied this in depth several years ago, but the researchers pushing it never got any traction. Why I’ll never know.
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I’d never heard of this before. Crazy to think things like this are still going on in the world. It’s horrible and heartbreaking.
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Ben this has an eerie ancient mindset like my post yesterday where he gave up his daughter to the mob
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I know. The fact that people feel these things are acceptable is disturbing. People in the ancient world had no issues with it and people in the modern world think the ancients had it right.
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Not to mention the crap apologists make up to justify the claim (2 Peter 2:7) that Lot was a righteous man.
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Is that an apparent contradiction? Oh my. That’s only 367 now on my list.
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Here’s one example that tries to square the circle:
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/you-asked-how-could-sinful-lot-have-been-righteous
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So if I believe god I am righteous. Wasn’t Dommer a Christian? He said he was.
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Jeffrey Dahmer became one after being convicted. As did Ted Bundy.
As did Rudolf Höss (Not to be confused with Rudolf Hess).
He was also a lapsed Catholic, but confessed his sins, received Jesus into his heart and took Holy Communion just before he died.
And according to Christians, he is now sitting next to Jesus in Heaven.
https://aleteia.org/2016/03/04/how-the-commandant-of-auschwitz-found-gods-mercy
As Sam Harris stated in a debate with William Lane Craig:
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Here’s the full dissertation (with added visuals):
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An Islam deconvert!? Wow. That’s unheard of here. I don’t intend to offend anyone but no wonder atheism on the rise.
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He has moved from Iran and is in the states now. He has some peor posts that are very interesting comparing Abraham and Muhammad
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There are similarities. My friend told me that Jesus is mentioned in the Quran as Isah. Abraham is the centre figure, isn’t he??
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Go ask Max. One of the reasons I followed him is islam is new territory for me
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I like religion as a way of life but not as a set of instructions.
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You’re right. Abraham is the centre figure. Jesus is mentioned as Isa Masih. As far as I know, Abraham is the first “Idol breaker” and more importantly it was Abraham who built Kaaba.
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Abraham built Kaaba??
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According to Quran, Abraham and Ishmael built it as God gave instructions. Another interpretation is that Adam and Eve built a temple but was ruined in the flood (Noah), later God instructed Abraham and Ishmael to rebuild it.
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If Abraham built it, why don’t Christians go and visit it? I
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The whole ritual of Hajj is based on the Islamic version of Abraham’s story. Christians don’t have Hajj or any mention of worshiping Kaaba in their texts. Also, Abraham is way more central in Islam than Christianity. As I said, the whole ritual of Hajj is based on the story of Abraham taking Hagar and Ishmael to Mecca from Canaan upon God’s order. Muslims even celebrate the day when God ordered Abraham to sacrifice Ishmael (Eid Al-Adha). Anyhow, Abraham was a psychopath, he abandoned his wife and infant child in a desert, then came back to slaughter his son! And threw pebbles at Satan who was telling him to stop the madness!!
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I’ve read about Lucifer too. He was a good guy until god turned on him.
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It is not inconceivable to me in the least, IF any of it were true (god, not psychotic illusion) that the whole story is a cover up and the good guys are in exile. Lilith and the desire for knowledge as part of that, was banished for not being subservient. That is the way it has played out in abrahamic religion, and the god of the Bible turns out to be an imposter. “IF” any of it were true.
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Submission and obedience are the exact opposites of freedom. Anything that doesn’t offer freedom of choice is oppression. If god really taught love, he failed to understand that love is also setting free.
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And Bharath, “if” Lucifer exists, not was a good guy, is the good guy.
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Well, it’s just another version of ‘victors glorifying themselves’.
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Leave it to religion to pervert sexuality. Poor kids. 😞
These “holy people ” of all religions are a scourge on humanity.
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Only all of them? Lol
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Ugh. After becoming a widow at an early age a nice Muslim Dr who had his eye on my asked me to marry him. He explained that it was his duty to take me in and protect me. He said he would like to make me his second wife and I’d be living in Saudi Arabia. He was using his religion for his desires. It was an awkward moment.
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Did he at least ask you to coffee first?
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Ha! He certainly did.
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Well at least his intentions were obvious and not coded in some awkward movie date.
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Lord, this is disgusting. I think some of this kind of mind-set exists/existed within the Catholic Church-thus the enormous amount of child rape that takes and has taken place within its hierarchy. It may not have been as defined as what’s talked about in your friend’s post, but it’s there nonetheless. Sick, sick stuff.
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We have an ongoing theme that children are worthless. Remember yesterday’s post. This is a very anciently rooted problem.
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Yes it sadly is.
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It’s heartbreaking to know that this exists.
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It is perpetuated by the elite. Makes you wonder if this isn’t a world problem??
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Child trafficking seems to be alive in DC as well
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It is, and it’s much more prevalent and systemic than most people realize.
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Even worse, we have an ongoing theme that children are here to be sexual playthings for adults.
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My comment over on Max’s blog —
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There is an entire underworld. If they don’t consider this immoral why do they hide it. This does not count as adulterous behavior as long as it’s not a woman. Sheesh!
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“As long as it’s not a woman.” That’s exactly what I thought about too Jim! But it’s obvious in the Shiite/Sunni world that public behavior is much different than private behavior… with little boys and girls expecially. 😦
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The reporters that broke this several years ago posed as interested parties and they were shocked and appalled at how proud they were of the boys. I’ll dig up the docu if I can
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Here is an outline of the story. You tube has actual videos too
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/afghanistans-dancing-boys-behind-the-story/2012/04/05/gIQAFXzJxS_blog.html?utm_term=.b3bc20ab4740
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I’ve added a link to the initial Post story in the text and here https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/afghanistans-dancing-boys-behind-the-story/2012/04/05/gIQAFXzJxS_blog.html?utm_term=.b3bc20ab4740
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