Afghan diplomat Mohammed Fagirad charged in all-day wife beating

[PoliCon]

Are we to sarcastically refer to Christianity as "the religion of peace" every time we hear news of Christians abusing their spouses and/or children or do you reserve that title only for religions you don't like?

Christianity does not claim to be the religion of peace. Thanks for playing :wave:

[lacarnut]

Are we to sarcastically refer to Christianity as "the religion of peace" every time we hear news of Christians abusing their spouses and/or children or do you reserve that title only for religions you don't like?

If you were not such a loony atheist, you would recognize the statement as a metaphor.

[Zeus]

If he pushed her down the stairs, it seems to me they could get an attempted murder charge. To only charge with abuse isn't enough. He'll get out in no time.

Ah but you need toprove attempted murder whereas just the claim of abuse is usually enough to convict.

[The Night Owl]

Christianity does not claim to be the religion of peace. Thanks for playing :wave:

The Koran does not contain any claims that Islam is a religion of peace.

[megimoo]

The Koran does not contain any claims that Islam is a religion of peace.

You are full of crap TNO !

[The Night Owl]

I think he reserves it only for religions who don't automatically condemn that behavior and that teach that women are "less" than men.

I don't know which Bible you're familiar with but the one I'm familiar with clearly suggests that women are less than men...

1 Corinthians 11:8-9

8For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...20;&version=9;

[PoliCon]

I don't know which Bible you're familiar with but the one I'm familiar with clearly suggests that women are less than men...

1 Corinthians 11:8-9

8For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...20;&version=9;

way to quote a passage out of context!! dumbass fucking atheist know it alls.

[Gingersnap]

I don't know which Bible you're familiar with but the one I'm familiar with clearly suggests that women are less than men...

1 Corinthians 11:8-9

8For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...20;&version=9;

Yes, but the bible doesn't sanction wife-beating as useful tool for family leadership and the Koran obviously does.

To ignore the implications of Islam in this case is to be naive at best or willfully ignorant at worst. Wife-beating is an instruction from the prophet to his followers. It's not a concept derived from parable or analogy. It's not something sifted out of OT style stories or the product of textual analysis. It's a flat instruction.

This man's transgression from a religious point of view is a matter of degree and duration, not behavior. The religious point of view is germane here because the husband can invoke talaq which results in a de facto divorce. When the case is put before the Family Court, the case will be decided according to sharia law. Under that law, in a he said/she said case, he wins because her testimony is worth half of his.

Aside from a very tiny minority of Christians in this country, wife-beating is uniformly seen as a despicable act which violates Christan morals and serves as evidence of a complete failure of Christian leadership on the part of the husband. No authoritative Christian institutions sanction wife-beating. None. No legal authority in this country would take a Christian man's word over his wife's word in any kind of case. No Christian family would imprison or kill a wife returned to her father's home because of divorce.

Values do matter.

[The Night Owl]

Yes, but the bible doesn't sanction wife-beating as useful tool for family leadership and the Koran obviously does.

The Bible clearly indicates that the wife must submit to the husband in everything...

Ephesians 5:22-24 (New Living Translation)

22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

So, according to the Bible, if the husband feels that he needs to discipline his wife in some physical manner, then the wife must submit to the punishiment. Everything means everything!

[FlaGator]

The Bible clearly indicates that the wife must submit to the husband in everything...

Ephesians 5:22-24 (New Living Translation)

22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

So, according to the Bible, if the husband feels that he needs to discipline his wife in some physical manner, then the wife must submit to the punishiment. Everything means everything!

Why must you take things out of context. You clearly have no understanding of the Bible and your efforts show your lack of knowledge. You left out :

Ephesians 5:25-27

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Christ discourages all physical violence. Can you show me where the Bible states that it is ok to use physical force to discipline a wife?