40 lashes for 75 Year Old Woman

**Meneldil** · 03-10-2009, 01:29

Ow, that's not fair.

Burning witches is fun, and it makes Salem a great place.

**Strike For The South** · 03-10-2009, 01:31

Originally Posted by Meneldil

Ow, that's not fair.

Burning witches is fun, and it makes Salem a great place.

Salem witch trials 1692

The lashing of 75 year old woman for having 2 unrelated men in her house 2009

Close.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 03-10-2009, 01:39

It will end sooner or later. Saudi Arabia's days like this are numbered. Oil consumption will eventually be reduced almost to zero within our lifetimes (judging no one here is over 60). Without that money that whole peninsula's economy will collapse and they will find it difficult to maintain such a tight control over their population when they have no money any more. Its all a waiting game at this point, if you want to do something after reading stories such as this, do your hardest to reduce oil consumption and promote renewable energy. Ruining them financially will do more to undermine their backward laws and society then any invasion force. Not trying to sound radical here, but it really is the easiest and most efficient way of standing up to awful regimes like this.

**Lemur** · 03-10-2009, 02:40

Not in the same league, since it doesn't involve horsewhipping, but this demonstrates that irrational punishment on religious grounds is not the exclusive province of the Muslims:

Nine-year-old girl has been raped by her stepfather since she was six. Finally she gets pregnant with twins. If she attempts to carry them to term she will probably die. (The human body is amazing and flexible, but no nine-year-old girl is ready to bear twins.) Anyway, mom helps her procure an abortion. Bishop excommunicates mother and doctors, but not the girl.

Cardinal Re, who heads the Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for Bishops and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told La Stampa that the archbishop had been right to excommunicate the mother and doctors.

"It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated," he said.

"Life must always be protected, the attack on the Brazilian Church is unjustified."

Note: I am not trying to derail this into yet another abortion thread. I just wanted to point out that rigid adherence to religious dogma is a universal danger.

**Major Robert Dump** · 03-10-2009, 02:44

Excommunication is a bigger deal in MTW2 than in real life. It's almost like a gift these days, now you have an excuse to change religions

**Lemur** · 03-10-2009, 02:46

The Catholics I know in RL wouldn't be the least bit happy about it.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 03-10-2009, 03:00

Wow, Lemur. I never thought something like this happened these days. Vatican sure tries hard to earn its bad publicity. First the Holocaust deniers and now this... There is always some sort of scandal around them.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 03-10-2009, 03:14

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm

Excomunication is a very serious thing however:

1. It is a medicinal punishment, which should be lifted as soon as the excomunicated person makes reparation and seeks Absolution.

2. It does not prevent the administering of Extreme Unction, so that the penitant's soul is not placed in peril.

So, MRD, not a reason to change religion.

As usual, however, the British press presents this as some great cursing and casting out.