Thread: Humans are funny cattle

Bob I don't think we will ever understand the mindset of these people , There religion is indoctrinated into them from an early age . Christianity was like this in many county's , through the middle ages . Thank goodness we have moved on . Lets hope pressure from the other country's can bring about her release , because in our eyes this is an awful injustice !!..Jim..

Originally Posted by jimr1

Bob I don't think we will ever understand the mindset of these people , There religion is indoctrinated into them from an early age . Christianity was like this in many county's , through the middle ages . Thank goodness we have moved on . Lets hope pressure from the other country's can bring about her release , because in our eyes this is an awful injustice !!..Jim..

Not just the middle ages - in many European countries having the wrong religious views would lead to a very sticky (or smoky!) end well into the seventeenth century, and in a few cases into the nineteenth century.

Several of the early colonies in what is now the USA were founded by groups that feared for their lives because of their religious views - and proceeded to persecute any of their own people who deviated from the "proper" views.

Freedom of religion is, in practice, a relatively new concept in the Western world, becoming fairly generally accepted only probably in the last fifty years. But if you look at history, restriction on religion really has only started with the rise of Christianity, copied by Islam. With some exceptions, earlier religions had always assumed freedom of belief.

John