Women cause Earthquakes

[Tom]

(CNN) -- Women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes, a leading Iranian hard-line cleric has apparently said.

The prayer leader, Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, says women and girls who "don't dress appropriately" spread "promiscuity in society."

"When promiscuity spreads, earthquakes increase," he says in a video posted Monday on YouTube, apparently of him leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, last week.

"There is no way other than taking refuge in religion and adapting ourselves to Islamic behavior," he adds in the video.

The video was posted by YouTube user "electionlies," who appears to be anti-regime. The account features wallpaper of a blindfolded woman apparently weeping blood and the slogan, "The green movement is alive."

Green was the color of anti-regime protesters in last year's demonstrations in several cities across Iran. The protesters were marching against the country's election results, which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office.

Sadeghi is a senior cleric who was appointed last year by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as a substitute Friday prayer leader in Tehran, an extremely influential position.

Khamenei himself is Tehran's official Friday prayer leader.

Iran suffers regular earthquakes, including a devastating one that destroyed the ancient city of Bam in 2003, killing tens of thousands.

Sadeghi is not the only religious leader to have linked earthquakes with human behavior this year.

American televangelist Pat Robertson suggested that January's devastating earthquake in Haiti was because of a pact Haitians made with the devil in order to throw off French rule in the 18th century.

A spokesman for Robertson said he was referring to a widely discussed Haitian legend, but University of Miami researcher Kate Ramsey said the legend was "utterly a fabrication, and it's an extremely offensive one."

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I knew women were powerful!!!

So do you suppose it took a couple of women to
cause the volcano eruption that shut down most of Europe for five days? Or just one powerful woman dressed super duper provocatively?

My apologies in advance to all the women on this forum!
Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, don't be mad at me.
I've seen what you can do!

 

[brmstn69]

Complete and utter bullshit...

Fred Phelps has already proven that Gays are responsible for all the worlds woes including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, war, famine, poverty, the failure of the American auto industry, the collapse of the real estate market and all the other natural disasters...

 

[Otage]

Religion truly enriches your life... Those extreme branches of religion I think are more a cult than anything else.

 

[XMan101]

Men do cause volcanoes - well with me they do

We've always had these stupid extremist religious ideas. In most cases it's just a way to control people, as has often been found they don't necessarily believe what they're spouting themselves! They're beyond hypocrites, the Saudi leaders are a prime example, the most restrictive country in the world, yet , for example, the leaders have huge wine cellars in a country where alcohol is forbidden and severely punishable. It's just a power trip and the more educated people are, the more these crazy ideas are ignored.

All organised religions have these extremes, and it's those that everybody focuses on rather than the vast majority of quite normal everyday mainstream believers who would rather they just kept quiet and disappeared just like any sensible person. The loud minority always becomes the focus over the huge moderate silent majority.

 

[BugsyB]

Complete and utter bullshit.the failure of the American auto industry

hmmm, so who is responsible for the Japanese auto industry? lol

 

[Irishman25]

hmmm, so who is responsible for the Japanese auto industry? lol

republicians!!

Complete and utter bullshit...

Fred Phelps has already proven that Gays are responsible for all the worlds woes including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, war, famine, poverty, the failure of the American auto industry, the collapse of the real estate market and all the other natural disasters...

yay!! we have a purpose!
we give meaning to disaster charities

 

[Mamah]

It's not just religious extremists who spread or hold to these superstitious beliefs. Many ordinary people also believe that the positions of planets and stars affect what happens in life and in the world! :heart: