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Ken: My brief note was just a quick reaction, strictly referring to
the scriptures. However, your comments are focusing on broader
concerns; well-said. Thanks.<br>
Best wishes.<br>
Ghazi<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/20/2016 3:06 AM, Kenneth Marcy
wrote:<br>
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On 3/19/2016 8:24 PM, Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:56EE17EF.4040502@uidaho.edu" type="cite">
Also on the 'ban' list should be: Catholic/Christian Canon Law,
Jewish Halaca -- both similar to Islamic Sharia.</blockquote>
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I will not disagree that the trinity of dominant desert dogmas,
the mainline monotheistic monsters, should be better separated
from the supposedly secular public preparation for civil
citizenship and economic employment that is required for the
majority of the community's children. However, the suggestion is
more easily stated than implemented because the legal and
educational history of the last millennium has embedded deeply
within the various legal systems of its centuries the diabolical
network architecture (DNA) of Christianity. The first written
works of English law recognized that the man formerly, and
informally, referred to as Billy the Bastard before crossing the
English Channel in 1066, and referred to as William the Conqueror
after that Channel crossing, demanded, and was granted, his wish
that all laws in the newly conquered lands would maintain above
their sovereignty only the Christian god.<br>
<br>
As a result, the subsequent English Common Law was carefully
devoid of any references to heathen or pagan aspects of Roman
Civil Law, and henceforward not only that separation was
maintained, but copious counts of legal pronouncements in the
subsequent centuries included references, direct, indirect, and
implied, to the Christian deity and its institutional and
administrative hierarchies, dogmas, doctrines, and divines so
deeply embedded in the structures and texts of the law that a
couple of decades of diligent effort likely would be required to
edit and amend such references from the various legal codes even
if there was general agreement to do so, which most certainly does
not exist. <br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:56EE17EF.4040502@uidaho.edu" type="cite">And
there is so much in the Bible that ought to be brought
back--e.g., head-coverings, much longer skirts, no bikini's, and
so forth.<br>
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There is so much in the various so-called holy books that should
be allowed to decay and to die from the memories of modern
humankind. The history of religions among human beings is an
awesome and terrible tragedy of mental illness passed from
generation to generation through teaching, tyranny, and terror to
perpetuate patriarchal power via priestly practices and political
patronage. Dozens of decades devoted to decimation decided by
divines can only be explained by massive madness mindlessly
murdering millions -- practices that continue today.<br>
<br>
Clothing choices to cover women are merely indications of social
and mental immaturity of the men who refuse to learn to master and
control themselves in socially advantageous ways. Blaming women
for the religiously inculcated mental retardation and
psychologically deviant socialization of men within the purview of
organized craven cults is not only unjust toward the women, but
postpones the time for opportunities to rectify mental illnesses
and to correct the public behaviors of the men who are violating
the basic human rights of many in planetary societies.<br>
<br>
<br>
Ken<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56EE17EF.4040502@uidaho.edu" type="cite">
Being out of Idaho no comfort (though Palouse is missed much);
Georgia is as bad, or worst.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/18/2016 4:45 AM, Kenneth Marcy
wrote:<br>
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<br>
Idaho Looks To Ban Islamic Sharia (was: Idaho Republicans
Want The Bible In Science Class)<br>
<br>
As a follow-up to the story from a month ago, Secular Talk
reports on the Idaho Legislature's consideration of Islamic
Sharia yesterday.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPfGEH8xfg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPfGEH8xfg</a>
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Time Length: 4:08<br>
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Also of interest are the hundreds of comments from YouTube
viewers everywhere about Idaho, et alia.<br>
<br>
<br>
Ken<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/19/2016 8:59 PM, Kenneth
Marcy wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56C7F2C3.2060901@frontier.com"
type="cite"> <font size="+1">Idaho Republicans Want The
Bible In Science Class <br>
<br>
Above is the title of the video that is at the other end
of this link:<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXFY29ZRHB8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXFY29ZRHB8</a>
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<br>
The video was published yesterday, 18 February 2016, and
is 5:35 in duration.<br>
<br>
The YouTube channel over which it was published is titled
Secular Talk, and currently has 265,871 subscribers who
have performed 135,181,469 views of the channel's content
since it joined YouTube 21 April 2008.<br>
<br>
The channel's host, Kyle Kulinksi, describes himself with
the phrases "liberal radio host," "social democrat,"
"agnostic-atheist," "secular humanist," "loyal to the
facts," and "principles over politicians". In this video,
as in many others he has made, he uses English language
that might be described as direct, blunt, and profane.<br>
<br>
Kulinski is responding to an item published by
rawstory.com located at </font><font size="+1"><b><a
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href="http://tinyurl.com/h28lao3"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/h28lao3">http://tinyurl.com/h28lao3</a></a><br>
</b><br>
Does Senator Nuxoll have any conception of the impact on
persons outside her district her proposals have?<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Ken<br>
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S.'Ghazi' Ghazanfar, Ph.D., Emeritus-Professor[(1968-02), Emeritus, 2002;
Dept.Chair-93-02; Director, In'l Studies-89-93; Adj.Prof.03-08;
Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83843-USA]
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