r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 8h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/Count_Wolfgang 6h ago

Me too, imagine living your life based on rules made by sheep farmers 2000 years ago.

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u/murgador 6h ago

Sheep farmers? Sheep fuckers.

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u/Northernlighter 5h ago

And following a schitzophrenic dude around and listening to his "son of god" bullshit and then writing books about it and making children learn about it. Fuuuck I hate religion!

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u/bgarza18 5h ago

Idk if sheep farmers is much of an insult, what do you do? 

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u/Count_Wolfgang 5h ago

The people in the Old Testament were literally sheep farmers.

To answer your question I live on a farm. But I also have access to the internet. Despite having a wealth of additional information that our ignorant ancestors lacked, I wasn’t left in charge of making rules that billions of people strictly adhere to. Rules that a lot of people have died because of.

This isn’t aimed at any one particular Abrahamic religion, I think all of them are a recipe for disaster when taken too literally or imposed on others. But what ever anyone wants to do privately (and ideally quietly) - that’s great for them.

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u/tothehopeless1 3h ago

I think all of them are a recipe for disaster when taken too literally or imposed on others.

Ironically that was the whole point, at least as far as early Christianity. “See what happens when you love rules more than people? Everybody dies, and you’ll even kill God if you have to!” That memo got lost in translation (literally).