Perspective...

[chaz wyman]

.

You are correct Chaz.

It was just a general joke.

The pic was, like all the photos I use, from stock.

My intent was not meant to be a, my god is holier than thou joke.

I have enjoyed all the different perspectives that were displayed upon this thread.

My own opinion was changed a few times.

I appreciate that there are many different validates towards this topic and even toward the last pic & joke I used.


I want to thank everyone who participated.

It was a fun thread.


.

Thanks

[chaz wyman]

The assumption is YOURS. You have inferred what was not necessarily implied.
I am able to see the joke as an atheist because any religious nuttery calls into question God's existence.

Fair point and I agree that 'jokes' such as these are not necessary, given that 'god/s' do not exist and such behaviour is a cultural one and not a 'god' given one. But the point of them is apparently to make the point that there is a contradiction in the believers faith. A 'joke' that I think fails on a couple of counts, one that the religion in question, as you have pointed out, does not advocate such apparel, so its a cultural inheirtence and two that its pretty much pointless as where does logic and reason come into religious belief anyway? It also assumes a 'samness' in 'god/s' as wwhy should their 'god' not wish to take the lesser of two 'evils' as I thought the justification for such gear is to reduce inflaming the male passions and to protect the female from such inflament.

Ironically enough you are guilty of the problem you assert could be inherent in the image/joke.
To the question 'why does god'... You said..

He doesn't.
Its generally a cultural requirement of certain of those who have embraced Islam.

WHO DOESN"T?

So bizarrely enough it was You that assumed the existence of a non existent entity, and not Bill, and probably not even the person who originally designed the image.

(though I accept the possibility that the joke could have been designed by a rabid Christian).

[Bill Wiltrack]

.





Yes Chaz, you are right my friend.


You were right...



....................................................................................







.

[Arising_uk]

WHO DOESN"T?

Fair enough. 'It' doesn't, at least the 'it' that the Islamic believer ascribes to or the 'it' that supposedly dictated the commands of the Koran.

So bizarrely enough it was You that assumed the existence of a non existent entity, and not Bill, and probably not even the person who originally designed the image.

Not really as the words "Allah" and "he" are in the caption. Which is what I was referring to.

(though I accept the possibility that the joke could have been designed by a rabid Christian).

More a given I'd say and one that ignores that the situation described is pretty much a regional cultural one rather than the religious one they want to ascribe(although I accept that this could be called cultural).