Flogging is definitely endorsed in The Bible. It doesn't simply fail to condemn flogging but specifies it as an important part of discipline.
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Originally Posted by handmaiden
This is just awful! And it only proves how dangerous and repressive Muslims truly are.
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True Christians are not like that, pretending The Bible doesn't say what it obviously does say. Muslims are always claiming their book says such and such, which in a sense it does, but immediately afterwards and often in the same verse—they only quote half of it—goes on to say something else. For example they'll lie to me (it's not "lying" because I'm "an infidel" they tell themselves) how in the book it says that to kill one human being is as if you kill all mankind. Well, I've looked it up and yes, it does say that BUT and it's a biggie
BUT in the very next verse [5:33] which they must know because anywhere this creed is the law of the land they actually do it, it goes on to say that I should be chopped up or expelled to an awful doom. Why? That's explained later on: I am the vilest of creatures. Now to be the very worst of created beings [98:6] I have some pretty serious competition. Paralysis tick springs to mind. Worse than a paralysis tick? Koran says yes. What about parasitic eyeball worms? Koran says yes, worse than that. The meningitis brain amoeba is a created being – how do I compare to that? Worse. It doesn't matter what you come up with, because I have read the book and disbelieve whether or not I'm a corruption in the land, I fall into the category of "the worst of created beings" or "the vilest.." depending on translation. WORST means that everything else is LESS WORSE (or less vile) and there's plenty of statements in there to that effect.
I know what the koran says because I've read it. When it is misquoted or used deceptively, I know that's what's happening. The fact that deceiving me isn't lying because I'm an infidel doesn't mean anything to me. It's lying and it's deliberate. And unlike Paul in Athens, who preached The Truth, the unreliability of this other message which is quite different from The Gospel, contains no truth at all.