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In reply to the discussion: Video-Amina: Topless Tunisian Protester Tells Femen She Was Beaten,Kidnapped & Drugged By Her Family [View all]backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Unless you spend years and years and years in seminary or the Muslim equivalent to ensure your interpretations are correct, and you can be trusted with the gift of interpretation.
How dare we atheists sit down, read religious texts for ourselves and point out the nonsense and bigotry! We have to be specially trained to roll the words around in six levels of indirection, abstraction and symbolic reinterpretation in religiously approved psychological framing, so we can get our doublethink working and be able to tell the world that 2+2=5!
If we dare to read the texts straight up, doublecheck the meanings of words using translation notes, and look at the texts from an objective point of view, we're in very serious danger of recognizing the contents as bullshit. Can't have that!