(June 26, 2018 at 6:22 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I dealt with that in edge cases, the translation I disagree with and contradicts other verses in Quran that allows love and friendship, let alone alliance.
So you basically compartmentalize the conflicting messages, picking and choosing what you want to follow, acknowledging that the rest is beyond your comprehension. "God works in mysterious ways."
Like when you read Surah Al-Tawbah, the ninth surah in the Quran, and find in verses 29 and 30 (written 9:29 and 9:30, or 9:29–30) the command to fight Christians and Jews until they either convert or pay the jizyah tax-as the Islamic State later did in cities like Mosul, Iraq; You read it like "give Christians and Jews some cake and enjoy the tea party."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"