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Taxation is not theft. The state doesn't simply declare its actions to be legal - in the contemporary state the sovereignty of the state is based upon the consent and support of the citizenry. The citizenry is the source of legtimacy. If the citizenry accept the actions as legitimate, they...

There hasn't been.

We are wasting our time in Afghanistan. I thought that was clear to everyone. :confused: While for you it is clear that the US and Allied troops are fighting and dying to save the Afghan people, I imagine if you are on the ground, your country is taken over by a foreign military force for a...

Apart from the evidence from all around the world of fully state funded education and health systems. This is contradictory. Once the state has received funds (and states don't just confiscate funds from the public), they are the state's funds. Or doesn't the state get to join in with your...

All you wanted from this thread was for people to just come in and nod their head in agreement with you about how Islam is bad. As soon as I legitimately burst that little bubble, you claimed I was taking the thread off topic and trying to cause a fight between Christianity and Islam. the irony...

In other words "What you said is entirely correct and I have no reasonable response for it so I will shift the subject with some amateur psychology". Smooth move.

I posted a link to such a website above, here it is again: Welcome to CDD

So despite the fact you know this occurs in Christianity, you would rather us just all sit around and talk about how bad Islam is? Great idea for a thread.

:doh: If that is what you think you have entirely missed the point. I have no interest in a battle of Christianity vs Islam and have not been trying to create one. I have no idea how demonstrating that more than one religion has been used to justify domestic violence and that therefore we...

Why are you laughing about the "predicitability" of debate when this thread itself demonstrates your prediction to be incorrect?

I just linked you to a Christian group who use Bible teachings about the relations between husband and wife to justify domestic violence. I see little difference between that and a specific Muslim group doing the same. Thankfully the vast majority of Chrisitans and Muslims don't engage in such...

This. Both those who commit the acts of terrorism in the name of the religion and those who would extrapolate from those acts of terrorism in the name of the religion blame to all who follow that religion are the problem. Islam is not going to go away any time soon. If you want to stop...

Home Like I said, this is not specific to a single religion, I don't see one religion should be singled out when sexist teachings exist in others which are used in exactly the same way to justify the use of violence against a wife. The fact of the matter is that, no matter how people try to...

... when you are banned from a forum to simply create a new username and continue posting as you were before? :thumbsup:

Anyone that thinks the world's environmental policies are anywhere near adequate for ensuring the sustainable development of humanity in the future needs to pull their head out of the sand.

Why would you be "forced" to conclude that? Black swans...

The guy that sent the email said he was drunk and didn't remember what he wrote, other than calling the President a word which apparently gets filtered out on this website. The people that read the email say he made threats. It is only the word of those officers that tells us that there were...

I'm not sure why this is being posed as a "Muslim" issue. Wife beating is not specific to that religion, there are plenty of Christians who take sections of the Bible seriously which call for no woman to have authority over men and see the role of the woman in much the same way as the OP...

The OP did say murder. While the thought of executing a prisoner is, for me, a physically nauseating sensation and something I would never do, it isn't strictly murder. Nor would killing an intruder in your house in self defence.

They should try to ensure that their budding serial killer remains just that - that is, that their child does not kill someone. A potential killer is not a killer, it is possible for a potential serial killer to never act on that potential, so your analogy does not fit with mine. I am also...