Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Societies and cultures don't exist independent of their religious foundations.

The fact is that the west has evolved into a better, more just, kinder and more liberal place to live precisely because of the inheritance of Christ's teachings and their emphasis on justice, kindness, pity, self-sacrifice and mercy and the way in which those ideals have informed our laws.

By contrast, many Islamic societies are worse places to live precisely because many of the teachings of the Koran are abhorrent, misogynistic, violent and barbaric.
Still, nothing to get excited about though, is it. My own "teachings" were denounced as abhorrent, misogynistic, violent and barbaric the other day when I questioned the wisdom of buying a new car just to motor the wife about in. One that doesn't reek of dog piss.


We've been involved in real wars abroad lately with hundreds of thousands of casualties and everyone was happy to leave us standing there with just our cocks in our hands (as the man said), but now a few disco dancers and shoppers get done in and everyone's up on their hind legs.

Does anyone at home actually have the bottle to fight back