[MD] What is the intellectual argument about Islamic veil wearing?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> When Christian law subjugates women, let me know.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Are you suggesting Pirsig exempts Christianity from the following quote 
> which you had provided?
> 
> "The selling out of intellectual truth to the social icons of organized 
> religion is seen by the MOQ as an evil act."  (Pirsig in his Copleston 
> Annotations)

No.

> Not to mention that in explaining this to SA, you provided the following 
> "analysis".
> 
> [Platt] "That laws come down from God (Mohammed)."
> 
> If the "selling out of intellectual truth to the social icons of organized 
> religion" means believing that "laws come from God (Mohammed)", why does 
> this exempt the similar belief among Christians that "laws come from God 
> (Yahweh)"?

Who said Christians are exempt?

> You had also described veils as evil because they are "the selling out of 
> intellectual truth to the social icons of organized religion". Any word yet 
> on the morality of a ban on those stooopid "WWJD" bracelets?

I don't know what WWJD bracelets are or why they are any more stooopid than
than the American voting public.




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