Comments on: Sex, War, and Religion http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Noel http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1760 Noel Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:17:29 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1760 Americans finally realize the try-before-you-buy works just as well with sex as it does with commodities. Rather than marrying and then shacking up with hot sex coming after the nuptuals, Americans are increasingly putting out before putting on the wedding rings.Women are just as likely as men to get it on before matrimony. I think this is just the sign of the times. I mean, we like to test things, try them out, before making a purchase. Why should sex and marriage be any different? The stigma associated with pre-marital sex is dead. Long live free love! Americans finally realize the try-before-you-buy works just as well with sex as it does with commodities. Rather than marrying and then shacking up with hot sex coming after the nuptuals, Americans are increasingly putting out before putting on the wedding rings.Women are just as likely as men to get it on before matrimony.
I think this is just the sign of the times. I mean, we like to test things, try them out, before making a purchase. Why should sex and marriage be any different? The stigma associated with pre-marital sex is dead. Long live free love!

]]> By: Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » The Mandatory Religious Experience http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1759 Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » The Mandatory Religious Experience Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:35:14 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1759 [...] To justify the claim that religion has nothing to do with the daily pictures of terror and oppression, some people claim that religion is “just a habit” (see). Some others prescribe that people should “follow their religion as it is rather than how a religious leader wants it to be” (see). As I am not a religious person, I can’t discuss these ideas. However, from reading portions of Quran, mainly because I’ve had to, I can say I have never found Quran drawing such a low-profile picture of itself. For example, when trying to show that Quran’s direct privilege to men to beat their wives is only a necessity for a thousand years ago, some people claim that parts of Quran had not meant to be applied to all generations. Whereas, the same book asserts that it is for all the times and all the places. [...] [...] To justify the claim that religion has nothing to do with the daily pictures of terror and oppression, some people claim that religion is “just a habit” (see). Some others prescribe that people should “follow their religion as it is rather than how a religious leader wants it to be” (see). As I am not a religious person, I can’t discuss these ideas. However, from reading portions of Quran, mainly because I’ve had to, I can say I have never found Quran drawing such a low-profile picture of itself. For example, when trying to show that Quran’s direct privilege to men to beat their wives is only a necessity for a thousand years ago, some people claim that parts of Quran had not meant to be applied to all generations. Whereas, the same book asserts that it is for all the times and all the places. [...]

]]> By: Arash (Iran) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1758 Arash (Iran) Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:37:50 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1758 Leila, Let's go a thousand years past in time: "Men are the source of income and they can fight in the wars. Women are just a pain in the neck. We really must kill girls at the moment they are born. It is the nature." For you information, this was practiced in some parts of the world. I do not believe in the above sentence. Nor, I accept your argument Leila,
Let’s go a thousand years past in time: “Men are the source of income and they can fight in the wars. Women are just a pain in the neck. We really must kill girls at the moment they are born. It is the nature.” For you information, this was practiced in some parts of the world.
I do not believe in the above sentence. Nor, I accept your argument

]]> By: LEILA http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1757 LEILA Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:43:39 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1757 the society we live in conditions us, our upbring influences, our parents instill their own values and beliefs in us whether its secular or religious. THIS IS PART OF NATURE. the society we live in conditions us, our upbring influences, our parents instill their own values and beliefs in us whether its secular or religious. THIS IS PART OF NATURE.

]]> By: EdoRiver http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1756 EdoRiver Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:49:02 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1756 Lily, yes from my experience, I was intoxicated or enraptured with my university experience. It opened up worlds and worlds of knowlege, so that I felt I was having a religious experience. too bad it didn't lead to definite conclusions about the nature of reality, however it did and is enriching my life as I type these words. An uneducated person is like a dark lantern. this is why it is so very very very important that females be given the same opportunities as males in developing countries for an education. IN FACT if a poor community must choose between educating their males or females in one family, the female should be chosen. Why? Because she is the first teacher of the next generation. She will have an effect by her ignorance or wisdom that I as a father will never, have never had. A stupid man can still become a construction worker, but an ignorant mother puts herself and her offspring in an inferior, more risky condition. Lily, yes from my experience, I was intoxicated or enraptured with my university experience. It opened up worlds and worlds of knowlege, so that I felt I was having a religious experience. too bad it didn’t lead to definite conclusions about the nature of reality, however it did and is enriching my life as I type these words. An uneducated person is like a dark lantern. this is why it is so very very very important that females be given the same opportunities as males in developing countries for an education.

IN FACT if a poor community must choose between educating their males or females in one family, the female should be chosen. Why? Because she is the first teacher of the next generation. She will have an effect by her ignorance or wisdom that I as a father will never, have never had. A stupid man can still become a construction worker, but an ignorant mother puts herself and her offspring in an inferior, more risky condition.

]]> By: EdoRiver http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1755 EdoRiver Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:42:59 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1755 Arash, there was a time in my childhood and early youth when I took my last sentence very seriously. But then I went off to high school and to university where I learned to doubt, until something could be proven. Of course I cannot experience everything. So some things had to, have to be accepted based on.........faith. The same condition, regarding my last two sentences is true with you isn't it? Arash, there was a time in my childhood and early youth when I took my last sentence very seriously. But then I went off to high school and to university where I learned to doubt, until something could be proven. Of course I cannot experience everything. So some things had to, have to be accepted based on………faith.

The same condition, regarding my last two sentences is true with you isn’t it?

]]> By: Lily http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1754 Lily Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:47:58 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1754 education is the new religion. education is the new religion.

]]> By: Mideast Youth - Thinking ahead » The Mandatory Religious Experience http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1753 Mideast Youth - Thinking ahead » The Mandatory Religious Experience Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:52:44 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1753 [...] To justify the claim that religion has nothing to do with the daily pictures of terror and oppression, some people claim that religion is “just a habit” (see). Some others prescribe that people should “follow their religion as it is rather than how a religious leader wants it to be” (see). As I am not a religious person, I can’t discuss these ideas. However, from reading portions of Quran, mainly because I’ve had to, I can say I have never found Quran drawing such a low-profile picture of itself. For example, when trying to show that Quran’s direct privilege to men to beat their wives is only a necessity for a thousand years ago, some people claim that parts of Quran had not meant to be applied to all generations. Whereas, the same book asserts that it is for all the times and all the places. [...] [...] To justify the claim that religion has nothing to do with the daily pictures of terror and oppression, some people claim that religion is “just a habit” (see). Some others prescribe that people should “follow their religion as it is rather than how a religious leader wants it to be” (see). As I am not a religious person, I can’t discuss these ideas. However, from reading portions of Quran, mainly because I’ve had to, I can say I have never found Quran drawing such a low-profile picture of itself. For example, when trying to show that Quran’s direct privilege to men to beat their wives is only a necessity for a thousand years ago, some people claim that parts of Quran had not meant to be applied to all generations. Whereas, the same book asserts that it is for all the times and all the places. [...]

]]> By: The Mandatory Religious Experience « Kamangir (Archer) - کمانگیر http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1752 The Mandatory Religious Experience « Kamangir (Archer) - کمانگیر Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:46:56 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1752 [...] To justify the claim that religion has nothing to do with the daily pictures of terror and oppression, some people claim that religion is “just a habit” (see). Some others prescribe that people should “follow their religion as it is rather than how a religious leader wants it to be” (see). As I am not a religious person, I can’t discuss these ideas. However, from reading portions of Quran, mainly because I’ve had to, I can say I have never found Quran drawing such a low-profile picture of itself. For example, when trying to show that Quran’s direct privilege to men to beat their wives is only a necessity for a thousand years ago, some people claim that parts of Quran had not meant to be applied to all generations. Whereas, the same book asserts that it is for all the times and all the places. [...] [...] To justify the claim that religion has nothing to do with the daily pictures of terror and oppression, some people claim that religion is “just a habit” (see). Some others prescribe that people should “follow their religion as it is rather than how a religious leader wants it to be” (see). As I am not a religious person, I can’t discuss these ideas. However, from reading portions of Quran, mainly because I’ve had to, I can say I have never found Quran drawing such a low-profile picture of itself. For example, when trying to show that Quran’s direct privilege to men to beat their wives is only a necessity for a thousand years ago, some people claim that parts of Quran had not meant to be applied to all generations. Whereas, the same book asserts that it is for all the times and all the places. [...]

]]> By: Arash (Iran) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/08/sex-war-and-religion/#comment-1751 Arash (Iran) Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:06:03 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=511#comment-1751 EdoRiver, I am not Iraqi. And your last sentence reminds me of my ideology books in highschool. No offense, but I never took them seriously. EdoRiver,
I am not Iraqi. And your last sentence reminds me of my ideology books in highschool. No offense, but I never took them seriously.

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