O, I can see wanting to kill someone, in order to make a problem cease, but not "kill innocent people you don't even know so you can go to heaven."

If i was this wife, I'd be kinda offended that my husband wants to have 77 virgins instead of me. That's a serious thought, not a joke, BTW. My ego would seriously be hurt. I don't understand why women even follow this crazy religion: They're born into oppression, then at about 8 years old, they get thier clitoris and all the other pleasure-giving parts of her reproductive anatomy scraped off with a bit of sharpened rock. Then, after all that, they are forced to marry some guy they don't even like. Then they are expected to kill themselves in the name of a religion that hates them.

In the bible, Abraham was told that God was going to give him a son and that the son would become a great nation. Abraham got tired of waiting for God, so he and his wife Sarah, took things into thier own hands and decided that Abraham should impregnate Hagar, Sarah's maidservant. Her son was Ishmael. Then a bit later, Sarah also became pregnant and had Isaac, whose descendants are the tribes of Israel.

God also said he would turn Ishmael into a great nation. Ishmael's descendants are the people who we now refer to as "Muslims." Pretty much everyone ranging from Iraq down to Saudi Arabia.

Because of Abraham's sin of adultery with Hagar, People even now are suffering because of these people who are the direct result of his sin. I wanted to write this to explain that this is why bad things happen to good people. Because God gave Abraham free will, and by his free will he chose something that resulted in bad things happening to good people. If God took away the consequences of Abraham's actions, then he may as well have not had free will to begin with. This is the answer to the question I'm SO sick of hearing: "Why does such a loving god let bad things happen to good people?"

Sorry to hijack the thread, but it kinda related and I wanted ppl to stop asking me that gosh darn question.

Yeah it is.

It's some of it. Another part I didn't mention is that if a woman falls in love with another man and sleeps with him, she and her lover get killed.

I can't wait for the day when either the gulf oil fields are depleted or we develop an economically competitive form of alternative energy! I'll laugh my head off when all those countries go back to camel farming and salt mines as the major basis of their economies. Isn't it ironic that all of the funding for terrorism comes from us buying their oil?

It might actually be a viable solution to the problem if the US were to actually do what the world keeps accusing it of: grab all of the mid-east oil fields so we don't have to pay them for it.

I'm not suggesting that would be a good idea, but it would economically destroy all of the mid-east countries and thereby cut of the major source of funding for terrorism. If the world didn't have to pay them for all that oil, there would be none rich enough to support these groups.

Like I said, not a viable, or palatable, policy, but I think it would work in a brutal sort of way.