Personally I think that Saudi Arabia has one of the best governments in the world. Censorship is a government right, and they use it well. When you land in a Saudi airport they check you for everything, magazine ads selling cigerettes and things like that. They take it all so that their people dont know what some sin is, and thus they can not commit it.
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Deus Ex Machina, you're right, I think we have a goodthinker award.
Will, you really think that people in Saudi Arabia don't smoke or drink? There's this wonderful thing called the "black market" which functions quite well in spite of the law's best attempts to get rid of it.
The rest of the thread is an... interesting read. "We're all converted, atheist to fanatic in just three short months" Sounds like I'm back in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Drinking is banned in Saudi Arabia, but smoking? That most certainly is not.
I should know, I used to live there ;-)
And with regards to drink, yes it's outlawed. But ordinary people, like you and me, that work out there (the ex-pats), generally smuggle in not alcohol, but the ingredients to make it and brew their own. It's a common practice in most of the 'Western' compounds.
"Personally I think that Saudi Arabia has one of the best governments in the world. Censorship is a government right, and they use it well. When you land in a Saudi airport they check you for everything, magazine ads selling cigerettes and things like that. They take it all so that their people dont know what some sin is, and thus they can not commit it."
Go and live there then, dickhead.
Read the "Princess" books sometime. Saudis drink, smoke, watch porn and do drugs the same as everyone else, they just keep it under wraps. They also fly to places like Thailand and Egypt to rape 8 year old kids.
They're about as sinless as a den of rattlesnakes.
They take it all so that their people dont know what some sin is, and thus they can not commit it.
If you don't know what a particular sin is, how are you supposed to recognise that you are about to commit it and stop?
“They take it all so that their people dont know what some sin is, and thus they can not commit it.”
That’s the kind of thinking that leads to abstinence-only sex ed.
Or as the Ancients used to call it: Ignorance.
If kids don’t know anything about sex except ‘married couples do it for procreaction,’ they’re vulnerable to people who will tell them that oral sex isn’t sex. or butt stuff. Handjobs.
If they don’t know it’s a sin, they’ll commit it without knowing they sin.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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