RE: Suratal Abu Lahab (The Fatiha perspective)
September 22, 2015 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2015 at 11:28 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(September 22, 2015 at 7:37 am)Chuck Wrote:(September 21, 2015 at 2:04 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Dude.
I'm no fan of Islam's apologists than you are, but that's just prejudiced as all hell.
Not cool.
How is that prejudicial?
Because "Muslims" aren't such backward shits. Several Middle-Eastern countries are, some due to factors largely unrelated to Islam. Where it is the worst, they've been exploited by religious leaders, in the countries where there are fertile breeding grounds for fanaticism to grow. And not even all of them. Several Muslim nations are fairly advanced, technologically, just still holding on to the remnants of the societal religiousity in a way that makes them socially illiberal.
P.S. - I'm all for "expressing disdain", but I felt that brush was too broad, and stepped over the line from criticism/disdain for religion to something bordering on mere prejudice.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
