RE: Verse 42:23 and how to interpret it, disciplines of interpreting Quran.
January 13, 2018 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2018 at 4:46 pm by WinterHold.)
(January 13, 2018 at 4:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Atlass33, I am extremely thankful that guys like you challenge and question that part of the world, and you are right, by comparison, Islam in that part of the world is still living in it's own dark ages. It has yet to have it's own Jefferson and Paine. I think with your voice and growing voices, eventually that part of the world can get there.
All I am saying in all that, and I say this to our atheist here and our liberal theists here as well, sure, question and especially condemn religiously justified violence or forced conversion. I TOTALLY AGREE.
BUT, it still remains Islam did not invent human cruelty. Our species behaviors are in us, not in our labels, not in our holy writings, not in our clubs we call religions. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in US, in our genes, in our evolution.
If anything you say or do gets another fellow human to consider backing off the idea of using religiously justified violence, I AM ALL FOR IT.
I totally agree that it's in us; the behaviors of extremist religious people are so similar to your common thug; if a human didn't get what they want, they might turn violent to win what they couldn't earn with peace.
Yes it won't stop; even if all religions vanished. The human behavior stays the same.
It's always like this, in Syria the big heads believe in nothing, but they pay for Jihadists to do the dirty work for them; a very fine example is the Shiite Hezbollah and the Sunni Nusra front.
The behaviors are the same, it's just the label of justification that changes.
I wish the region here change before it's too late.
