
Liberation is well and good but what follows is just as important. Some of these options could easily return. Is that what anyone really wants?
Of course it's not for me to express opinions: all necessary information is in The Bible. Here are some of the activities involved.
The left-hand column is in Iran.
1. Be hippies. There is no such thing as a Christian hippie. So if they resume whatever hippies do, it's certain they'd be rejecting Jesus. As you can see, the price is stamped on their faces, the slovenly "cool" attire and the lounging postures. Why bother, they might as well be saying?
2. Form a dubious "club" doing things most people never even dream of. But which won't include stamp collecting, knitting or making model aircraft. No doubt "visitors" would be welcome if they has a suitable "funky" hairstyle or other sought-after characteristics.
3. Sit on a bench. This is Tehran so the weather won't be too bad and in fact it looks sunny. Domestic duties have gone out the window and what they're looking at is unlikely to be pictures of cakes. Have their owners even given permission for them to be out? It's not a question they'd ever consider – if they knew it was a question at all.
4. The playing of sport. Now maybe I'm too "progressive" whatever that means, in that games seem appropriate sometimes such as Ludo or quoits during the afternoon. Caber tossing less so for this specimen and pole vaulting or similar (including cliff scaling and parachute jumping) are definitely out. Monopoly is a bit time consuming unless helping to instil basic economic principles: it's quite good for that.
Are these things we'd want to see return to Iran? You decide.
The right-hand column shows some Afghans.
1. Sit by water in Kabul. And what do you think happens next? I didn't list any hippies' activities for good reason (they're all dreadful) but a fair proportion of them will be likely here! What if she were your family member?
2. Wear mini shirts. This unpleasant habit is being promoted by cynical fashion designers hoping to charge more money for less clothing. Jesus does not approve of such garments or the shamelessness of upturned heads.
3. Buy lurid fabric. And what will she make with it when she gets home? Nothing that'd be acceptable in any Church, except among heretics. So it would be out of the frying pan and into a different frying pan if, as looks likely here, strict regulation of fabric supply were not applied.
4. Learn to read. This has now been stopped of course – but should it be reintroduced when a better flag is flying over Afghanistan?
Currently, sanctions for doing any of these are extreme. Although their resumption would not be encouraged under a Godly administration, for anyone taking them up should the penalties be less or about the same? God's answer is easy to find: it's right there in The Bible! At present that is not a publication easy to find in either place. Should more be made available? And at what price? Free? Cost? Hard cover or paperback?
I guess that's where a game of Monopoly could be useful.
In Christ.

has to fight for peace, by ruining mosques, obliteraring cities where mosques stand, and eliminating civilians who follow false religions.
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