While anybody can change their external behaviour to comply with a set of rules, it is only God's grace revealed to us by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that can radically transform our hearts and kill our love of evil.
It doesn't matter whether the religion is Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or nominal Christianity (by which I mean taking on the form of the faith in Christ without walking in relationship with Him), religion will always make a person more evil not less.
And so to Iran, where the brutality of the religious regime is making even its young thugs recoil.
From Melanie Phillips:
And this is why they want to overthrow it.
The Jerusalem Post reported an interview with a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia, who had himself been detained for the ‘crime' of having set free two Iranian teenagers, a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, who had been arrested during the disturbances. What was shocking, however, was his description of his previous activities as a Basiji thug:
He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so ‘impressed my superiors’ that, at 18, ‘I was given the 'honour' to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.’ In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a ‘wedding’ ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her ‘husband.’
‘I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,’ he said. Why the regret, if the marriages were ‘legal?’ ‘Because,’ he went on, ‘I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their 'wedding' night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.’
These people have looked to the west to help deliver them from this tyranny – and the west has looked the other way.
Do you see the evil religion launches? The religious law says that virgins cannot be executed, so to allow these women to be executed they need to be legally raped and this is done by means of a false wedding which is actually a perversion of marriage. All of this to allow a form of religion to justify barbarity.
It's not only Islam that does this of course. Christianity has had its fair share of evil practices perpetrated by evil people who used the power of an institution to condone their deeds and undermine the grace of God.
The full article is here:
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