The other night my husband and I watched a movie called "Love Crimes of Kabul."
No, it's not what you're thinking.
It was a documentary about people (mostly women) who are sitting in prison in Afghanistan because of some sort of "crime" involving adultery.
One young woman was there because she had been found at her kitchen table eating macaroni and cheese with her boyfriend. She was charged with intent to engage in sexual acts or something of that sort.
Another woman was arrested for not returning home from work on time. She had missed her curfew and was afraid to go home because, as she said, "my family talks with knives." She was 24-years-old.
It really made me think 2 different things.
One: How do we think that we're going to bring any kind of democracy to a country that treats its women like children?
Two: In a perfect Evangelical Christian society wouldn't it be exactly the same?
Theocracy is okay if it's christian.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there are the terribly sad stories like this one:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/world/asia/31herat.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=Afghanistan%20police&st=cse
Wow. That was a shockingly sad story. And one more example of the damage unbridled religion can do.
ReplyDeleteSorry to dig up an old topic. I watched the President's address to Congress last night. Toward the end he quoted the Pledge Of Allegiance. "under God". Over time I've sent messages to various political pundits questioning their stance on the separation of church and state. If I receive any response at all it's almost unintelligible partySpeak. It's my understanding that James Madison was responsible for a lot of the constitution. Here are some of his thoughts: http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/qmadison.htm Drives me crazy.
ReplyDeleteI just don't get how the Evangelicals are so very scared of Sharia law, yet they can't figure out why I'm afraid of Christian theocracy. Christian theocracy is much more capable of happening here than Sharia law, and it's more or less the same thing with a different name.
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