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Religion as compassion in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi woman has been executed for practising “witchcraft and sorcery”, the country’s interior ministry says. A statement published by the state news agency said Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was beheaded on Monday in the northern province of Jawf. She wasn’t stoned to death. That’s the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cruelty’
Words can’t express
December 7th, 2011 
Ophelia Benson Imagine going to Saudi Arabia for the hajj, all the way from Australia, and finding yourself sentenced to a year in jail and… 500 lashes. To the best of my knowledge, 500 lashes is a death sentence. One hundred risks being a death sentence; five hundred just plain is one.
Another turn of the screw
December 6th, 2011 Ophelia Benson The brains of children raised in violent families resemble the brains of soldiers exposed to combat, according to an article in Wired. They’re primed to perceive threat and anticipate pain, adaptations that may be helpful in abusive environments but produce long-term problems with stress and anxiety. “For them to detect early cues that might signal [...]
The milk of human kindness
December 2nd, 2011 Ophelia Benson And then there’s Gulnare Freewill Baptist church, which told a parishioner - ever so politely, you understand – that her fiancé couldn’t come to the church again, on account of how he’s not a white person. Perfectly understandable. It’s because they (church members who voted on “the issue”) want to promote greater unity among the church body [...]
They’re not here to play
November 16th, 2011 Ophelia Benson Frank Schaeffer fills us in on the world of evangelical child discipline for the glory of god, otherwise known as child abuse. There’s the Texas judge, there are Michael and Debi Pearl, there’s James Dobson, and there’s Bill Gothard. And it is not just individuals who are abused. Whole “Christian” organizations are involved. According to [...]
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Tags: Beating children for god, Cruelty, Religious child abuse 
13 Comments »An inspiration
October 7th, 2011 Ophelia Benson Via Libby Anne – Couple pleads not guilty in homicide of adopted daughter
One hand is enough
September 19th, 2011 Ophelia Benson It doesn’t matter what you believe. The important thing is how you live. An Islamic sharia court in Nigeria has sentenced two men to amputation at their right wrists for stealing a bull, with the amputation to be carried out in public if it is given final approval.
It is time you resigned as chairman of the universe
September 5th, 2011 Ophelia Benson Here’s a pretty item from Michael Pearl – A woman wrote to him about her devastation at a miscarriage. Even now I have nightmares every night. I dream that my baby is crying and when I go to take care of him, I can’t find him. I look everywhere but I can’t find my baby. [...]
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