A causa dos Terramotos

Esta notícia pode fazer rir alguns. Mas na sua base está um assunto sério!

Não me refiro ao conteúdo propriamente dito da "mensagem" (a origem dos terramotos) mas sim aos métodos utilizados para o exercício poder (seja ele de que tipo for, recompensa, coerção, legitimo, referência ou competência), nomeadamente a utilização da "religião".
É algo que nos deveria fazer pensar.

«A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.

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"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

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"A divine authority told me to tell the people to make a general repentance. Why? Because calamities threaten us," said Sedighi, Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader.

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Ahmadinejad made his quake prediction two weeks ago but said he could not give an exact date. He acknowledged that he could not order all of Tehran's 12 million people to evacuate. "But provisions have to be made. ... At least 5 million should leave Tehran so it is less crowded," the president said.

Minister of Welfare and Social Security Sadeq Mahsooli said prayers and pleas for forgiveness were the best "formulas to repel earthquakes."

"We cannot invent a system that prevents earthquakes, but God has created this system and that is to avoid sins, to pray, to seek forgiveness, pay alms and self-sacrifice,"».



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