Taxi Driver
June 6, 2016 at 4:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2016 at 4:46 am by SofaKingHigh.)
So, I went to see the Deftones, Peace be upon them, on Friday and in the Taxi on the way home I got talking to Muhammad, our taxi driver. Muhammad, of course, is a Muslim.
I asked if he minded if I spoke to him about his faith, we danced through a few hoops at first, with me trying hard not to offend him. Eventually we had a decent enough rapport that I could ask why, out of the thousands of religions out there, his was the truth.
His answer troubled me because, well, it was so bad. He said islam was the truth because all other religions had been changed, but that islam was still in it's original form, untouched. He then went onto use the Bible has en example, citing how many revisions and versions of the bible their have been throughout the years. How could the word of God be changed by man so many times?
This throws up so many questions, that my head starts to hurt, but how does the fact that a book hasn't changed since it's initial release, so to speak, prove a book is written by God? As I tried to point out to him, it only proves that the book hasn't been changed. No more.
I was expecting something much more, but that's probably why none of this shite ever appealed to me........ when I offered an alternative explanation; that the reason he was a Muslim was the fact that he grew up in Afghanistan, he went pretty quiet for a while, before quickly changing the subject.
I asked if he minded if I spoke to him about his faith, we danced through a few hoops at first, with me trying hard not to offend him. Eventually we had a decent enough rapport that I could ask why, out of the thousands of religions out there, his was the truth.
His answer troubled me because, well, it was so bad. He said islam was the truth because all other religions had been changed, but that islam was still in it's original form, untouched. He then went onto use the Bible has en example, citing how many revisions and versions of the bible their have been throughout the years. How could the word of God be changed by man so many times?
This throws up so many questions, that my head starts to hurt, but how does the fact that a book hasn't changed since it's initial release, so to speak, prove a book is written by God? As I tried to point out to him, it only proves that the book hasn't been changed. No more.
I was expecting something much more, but that's probably why none of this shite ever appealed to me........ when I offered an alternative explanation; that the reason he was a Muslim was the fact that he grew up in Afghanistan, he went pretty quiet for a while, before quickly changing the subject.
You may refer to me as "Oh High One."
