(September 23, 2017 at 7:01 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:
(September 23, 2017 at 6:55 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Religion is not evil.Related question, What color is a true Scotsman's kilt?
People are evil. And they produce evil versions of the faiths; in a hellish mutation that reflects their filthy, rotten selves.
The OP doesn't represent Islam. He represents a sect ( that composes 20% only of the total Muslim population; and for good reasons). The mutations humans caused to religion produced to us cults and sects that hate each other, and cause utter destruction in their sick twisted path for dominance.
I would say it has everything to do with the person; because a clean mind would never pick up a sick mutation to be their faith.
If we took the OP and raised him up in a Jewish family, or a Catholic family, probably he would've grown to be a Rabbi or a Priest, not a smiling Shiite.
Do " I "; AtlasS, represent Islam on the other hand?
No, I don't.
Islam is represented by the deity that revealed it. Not under any circumstances, do a person gets the copyright credits like most religious clerics claim to hold the keys to salvation.
Not him, not me, not his 12 Imams, nobody. Allah, and Allah alone holds the key to salvation. In this life, we get to believe in what we think is right, and let God be the judge. The Quran is the message I believe. The 12 Imams are the source he believes. Atheism is the source you advocate and believe.
End of story: there shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion.
