(January 29, 2016 at 5:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote:I think you're a little off on your conclusion. From the pure Islamic pov muslims are supposed to believe everything in the Bible and Torah. Of course since they are forbidden to read those books they can't believe what's in them. So that makes the Islamic clerics liars and deceivers because they don't believe what's in the Koran.(January 29, 2016 at 12:44 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: So who revised the Koran to include chapters and verses? It must have been done after the 16th Century.
If you got it right the first time, why would conflict exist at all? I find it absurd to blame the misinterpreted competing versions of even the same religion on those who claim they are reading it the proper way. If this universal god wants humans to get along, it seems going out of his way to allow different versions and competing religions the opposite of the universal message he claims.
Religious people tend to get bad attitudes when it's suggested that they should follow one doctrine. If they did that then countless people would lose their special status and jobs. Consequently they all want to retain their own herd where they can be the big wig. In a fractured system everyone can get to be someone special even if it's just the head of a small gaggle of superstituous twits.
Even Mohammed complained that his herd of twits had formed over 70 different sects in his lifetime and he was the one who supposedly came up with the BS in the first place.
There is no celestial God of any kind in this solar system.