will the homosexuals be happy now ?

[marshaul]

...perhaps the political and judicial pendulum will swing the other way and we'll see a change again in future!

Not likely. Nobody cares anymore, except those with a horse in the race.

It's the same reason gun control is a non-starter.

Also, don't forget government has no authority to define the nature of any religious institution.

 

[sudden valley gunner]

And that culture stopped advancing shortly after that. A cell phone and a S500 Mercedes Benz does not a advanced society make.

No it doesn't, but free trade does.

And it was free trade the "western" culture these concepts that we advanced.

I bet if you were to study why they stopped "advancing" it wasn't due to being muslim. And I feel this might be a little shortsighted in inferring they have nothing to ad to science, medicine or technology today......

Not likely. Nobody cares anymore, except those with a horse in the race.

It's the same reason gun control is a non-starter.

Also, don't forget government has no authority to define the nature of any religious institution.

+1

 

[OC for ME]

No it doesn't, but free trade does.

And it was free trade the "western" culture these concepts that we advanced.

I bet if you were to study why they stopped "advancing" it wasn't due to being muslim. And I feel this might be a little shortsighted in inferring they have nothing to ad to science, medicine or technology today......

I stand by my contention that it has been a very very very very very very very very very very long time since that culture advanced anything other than finance. Oh, investing in companies/individuals who do create advancements is not the same as that culture creating advancements. But, this is likely splitting hairs due to the fact that a advancement can not typically get created these days without money. So I guess one could say that Arabs continue to advance our civilization.

By the way, I did not mention Muslim. When Arabs (Are Babylonians considered Arab?) were "creating" algebra Islam was not even a twinkle in the eye of any Arab. Babylonia is where it is said that the roots of algebra can be found.

Read up on François Viète.

The rise of Islam is, in my view, the single event that greatly diminished the Arab cultures contributions to the advancement of our civilization. Very unfortunate for our civilization.

 

[beebobby]

Seems that once a country/culture turns into a theocracy, science and social progress suffer.

 

[OC for ME]

Seems that once a country/culture turns into a theocracy, science and social progress suffer.

Bingo! But I was too chicken to actually type it. I don't what to be the focus of a fatwa.

 

[wrightme]

Bingo! But I was too chicken to actually type it. I don't what to be the focus of a fatwa.

Or a Crusade.....

 

[marshaul]

Seems that once a country/culture turns into a theocracy, science and social progress suffer.

Yes, indeed. Of course, this applies to all totalitarian governments.

 

[georg jetson]

Seems that once a country/culture turns into a theocracy, science and social progress suffer.

Absolutely! And that includes the atheistic, fascist, totalitarian government we have now.

 

[sudden valley gunner]

Yes, indeed. Of course, this applies to all totalitarian governments.

Bingo. Nothing to do with being Arab or any other ethnicity......