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Promiscuity Causes Earthquakes According to Kazem! - BallseyMalone - 05-17-2010
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – Fri May 14, 9:32 am ET
TEHRAN, Iran – A prominent hard-line Iranian cleric elaborated on his claim that promiscuity and immodest dress cause earthquakes, saying Friday that God may be holding off on natural disasters in the West in order to let people sin more and doom themselves to hell.
The cleric, Kazem Sedighi, sparked widespread derision with his pronouncements in a prayer sermon last month that women who don't dress modesty spread adultery in society, in turn increasing earthquakes.
In Tehran's main weekly prayer sermon on Friday, he defended the claim but added some further explanation on why some places are hit more than others.
"Some ask why (more) earthquakes and storms don't occur in the Western world, which suffers from the slime of homosexuality, the slime of promiscuity and has plunged up to the neck" in immorality, he said.
"Who says they don't occur? Storms take place in the U.S. and other parts of the world. We don't say committing sin is the entire reason but it's one of the reasons," he said.
But, he said, "sometimes, God tests a nation. ... (God says) if believers sin, We slap them because We love them and give them calamity in order to stop their bad deeds."
"And those who have provoked God's wrath, He allows them (to commit sins) so that they go to the bottom of hell," Sedighi said.
Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, another prominent hard-line cleric, urged Iranians last month to give alms and pray for forgiveness to prevent earthquakes. Hours later, four small earthquakes struck different corners of Iran.
RE: Promiscuity Causes Earthquakes According to Kazem! - Jamminitin - 05-17-2010
I am pretty sure there are parts of this country that would cease to exsist if promiscuity determined calamity.
RE: Promiscuity Causes Earthquakes According to Kazem! - twisteroo - 05-17-2010
Hey, who wants to cause an earth quake???
RE: Promiscuity Causes Earthquakes According to Kazem! - Twitchin Kitten - 05-17-2010
I should have been buried under rubble eons ago.
RE: Promiscuity Causes Earthquakes According to Kazem! - Havoc - 05-18-2010
Only women can be promiscuous ? Interesting theory not very reality based but interesting.
Just imagine how terrible this world would be if some women didn't dress without modesty, I know that there are days that would suck more if not for the half naked women I encounter occasionally.