One of the things that truly enrages me about this guy is this: the very fact that he tries to rationalize the law to questioners reveals his own understanding that it's inherently wrong. Someone who completely believed in it - presumably because it came from god - would simply say "I don't have to explain it to you; it's god's law." This guy hems and haws about it. Yeah, he believes men and women aren't equal, but somewhere down deep inside him, he knows that it's crap, that his faith doesn't back him up.
And that's how it is with a great many "faith-backed" laws with unfairness or bigotry at their core. The people who support this kind of unjust law, and claim holy backing of the laws, know somewhere in their hearts that a) god supports no such thing and b)that it is, in fact, wrong. (For instance, substitute pro-slavery Christian ministers of the 1800s, pre-Civil War, for Afghani imams, and you have the same thing.)
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Date: Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:39 pm (UTC)One of the things that truly enrages me about this guy is this: the very fact that he tries to rationalize the law to questioners reveals his own understanding that it's inherently wrong. Someone who completely believed in it - presumably because it came from god - would simply say "I don't have to explain it to you; it's god's law." This guy hems and haws about it. Yeah, he believes men and women aren't equal, but somewhere down deep inside him, he knows that it's crap, that his faith doesn't back him up.
And that's how it is with a great many "faith-backed" laws with unfairness or bigotry at their core. The people who support this kind of unjust law, and claim holy backing of the laws, know somewhere in their hearts that a) god supports no such thing and b)that it is, in fact, wrong. (For instance, substitute pro-slavery Christian ministers of the 1800s, pre-Civil War, for Afghani imams, and you have the same thing.)