236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Changes in Islamic Law
How much of biblical legal and moral codes have changed over time. Here i'm thinking that in christianity went through the enlightenment and became much more liberal and tolerant and open, and eventually joined the civil rights movement. I mean, even conservative christians to day, now, six years after the supreme court legalized same sex marriage in the united states, hardly ever talk about it any more. So the changes may but the sense is that islam didn't go through an enlightenment like that, where they'd become more liberalizing. But that's probably an unfair characterization. Probably depends on which moslem groups you're talking about and which countries, or whatever.
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