"Mosques' advice: 'don't report abusive husbands'" - Page 2

Humes fork · 27th May 2012, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by ANTPogo

I'd rather work towards an achievable improvement, instead of thinking up impossible pipe dreams that can't and won't ever come to pass.

Your mileage may vary, I suppose.

I know it may not be realistic, but I'm not ever going to put tribal and theocratic legal traditions on par with modern, secular ones. Ever.

And yes, it would still be better if they became atheists.

Darat · 27th May 2012, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Craig4

Is anyone here having a hard time seeing a Roman Catholic priest giving similar advice?

Within my lifetime I've known women who were told by their RC priest to not protest, "make a fuss" about abuse (physical) at the hands of their husband as he was a "good man" and we all have weaknesses. One would hope today that wouldn't happen, but I'm not too sure...

27th May 2012, 09:14 AM	#41
Humes fork Master Poster Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,357	Originally Posted by ANTPogo I'd rather work towards an achievable improvement, instead of thinking up impossible pipe dreams that can't and won't ever come to pass. Your mileage may vary, I suppose. I know it may not be realistic, but I'm not ever going to put tribal and theocratic legal traditions on par with modern, secular ones. Ever. And yes, it would still be better if they became atheists.
	__________________ "Faith is the surrender of the mind; it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It’s our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated." - Christopher Hitchens

27th May 2012, 09:26 AM	#42
Darat Lackey Administrator / JREF Forum Liaison Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 64,783	Originally Posted by Craig4 Is anyone here having a hard time seeing a Roman Catholic priest giving similar advice? Within my lifetime I've known women who were told by their RC priest to not protest, "make a fuss" about abuse (physical) at the hands of their husband as he was a "good man" and we all have weaknesses. One would hope today that wouldn't happen, but I'm not too sure...
	__________________ If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008