Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Religion on Feb 12th, 2008
Whatever you call it - heart, soul, mind - it is sacred to you, influenced by outsiders, yes, but controlled only by you. They can only reach it if you allow them to. It is yours and yours alone. You alone have the final say. Yours is what makes you, you: [...]
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In a country where unmarried couples who have sex, or who even date and hold hands can be arrested, fined, and flogged, Maryam (a hairdresser) and Karim (a salesman) managed to carry on a relationship for five years. The reason this was possible is that they were able to produce the correct documents whenever [...]
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Myth 1: Without religion we would have no moral values and our society would be worse off.
Surely, the argument goes, the benefit of having a god in your life is that it gives you rules to live by. “If God does not exist then everything is permissible,” said Dostoyevsky, and indeed, without the threat [...]
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