From the perspective of an American (i.e. me), it's between the spouses or the consenting adults having sex. If someone is injured by an adulterous relationship, it isn't the society that is injured but the individual spouse/family/children. Therefore, it's a matter for civil law where damages...
And so we've come full circle.
My point of view is that religion isn't the only institution, and it isn't the only institution that unduly influences the state. Europeans and their colonies established secular societies in reaction to centuries of misrule from a collusion of church and state...
Back to the topic at hand, to get this back in line with the thread we're dealing with(and because the mods will move that needle regardless of what we say or think in this thread), we're probably in agreement that secularism is the best way to handle the institution of religion in a modern...
A simple Google search would have yielded this information. Please don't bother with "but they don't! it isn't on the books!" when they really, really do regardless of whatever their opaque police state claims they don't. It's pretty amusing to me that you'll carry water for an authoritarian...
Baby, they harvest peoples' organs and drop you with a single bullet. What are you going on about? Is it because it's "da Islams" that you're riled up and unable to see that authoritarian brutality is authoritarian brutality regardless of whether or not it is informed by religious fanaticism.
Secularism is neutral. Its application, seen by you as a universal good, is only as good as the nation-state's/regime's intentions. It happens to be an effective way to govern a modern society when used to protect religious minorities. China is among the world's most secular nations. It...
There's not really any solid evidence for ganja being haram like there is for alcohol. I would wager most jurists would consider it makruh, disliked. Maybe you can do it, but it isn't recommended. That's also the reason why it is grown in Aceh, and why the seeds are sometimes used in traditional...
If you're interested in this subject, PM me or we can open a thread in the cage. While I do find this particular issue fascinating, the mods will view it as a deviation from the thread's original topic and insist we keep it on course. And they'd be right. I mentioned it only as a useful example...
I mean, imposition of opinions/beliefs on others is how all societies arrive at their norms and political aims whether or not they're informed by religion. It's personally my belief that a man cannot become a woman and vice versa. I arrived at this conclusion because our sexes are concrete and...
The Indonesian state has difficulty resisting implementation of the shari'a because its national ideology is influenced by the shari'a. It is not a coincidence that a nation with a majority Muslim population has for the first precept of its allegedly multiconfessional state ideology an...
Using religion to inform a legal framework is ruinous as it is all too rigid. There is no room for improvement or progress as society is perceived to have reached a pinnacle at another point in history. In the case of the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan, they well and truly believe that human...
Totally fair. My beef with that other article is that it's an exercise in white knighting. Indonesia isn't seen as a place where millions of people live, its value is tied to whether or not the Guardian's readership can enjoy a vacation there.
I'm sure there will be more to come on a broader...
To qualify as being racist, I'd have to denigrate my co-ethnics. I mentioned white people twice in that comment. The first time in reference to the opinions of white people, which is normally couched in the clumsy term "Western". The second time in reference to the perceived priorities of...
The Guardian's article is demonstrative of my critique of white reactions to the law. What is important to the readership of the Guardian, apparently, is that Australian tourists may or may not be inconvenienced/shook down. What is also important is to ensure that a protected class in their...
There is no et cetera, you already listed the only regions of the world where press and outrage culture coalesce into white knighting. Indonesia's regional neighbors, and wider Asia, won't be batting an eye.
Most of us would agree that China's government is far more repressive than...
When someone says that people of a certain nationality are "going back to the stone age", it implies that that people are primitives. They're not, and I think you recognize that. But for our Indonesian readership, how should they interpret the original comment and your agreement with it? Will...
You'd think that, but nine times out of ten if you mention Indonesia people in the United States are nonplussed. They have no idea what it is/where it is, they just think they don't care for it. If you mention Bali, suddenly they're sharing with you all their plans to go there "someday".
They...
I was gonna just not comment, even though my pet topic was brought up twice in the other thread about the same issue. Starting to feel like it has moved into offensive territory and needs to be toned down. Feeling pretty confident the mods will merge the two threads. Anyway.
Our Indonesian...
Wife and kids, all WNI, traveled from the United States and just finished their quarantine about two days ago. A few important things to note:
-We encountered some social media influencers and other rumor mongers who have suggested that children five and under will not require a negative PCR...
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