With great sadness I have just read about the astonishing number of executions that have been carried out in a certain middle-eastern country. It is more than likely that many of the confessions that led to conviction may have been obtained under torture. The legal system of that country does not comply with what is accepted by the civilised world as being fair and impartial. Foreign nationals and the mentally ill were disproportionately punished.
It is a fact that so many horrible regimes in our shared history have resulted, when religion holds the reigns of both government and the judiciary. It dictates. It punishes dissent. It kills those who differ from it. It silences reason. It imposes its will. Horrible, horrible, horrible. It belongs behind locked doors.
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