(August 11, 2018 at 11:47 am)Aroura Wrote: Islam is whatever the people currently practice it make it out to be. Just like Christianity and Buddhism and every other religion, it changes over time.
And it varies from location to location as well as well as sect to sect and person to person.
There is no "true" Islam. There is only whatever the modern interpretation is, wherever you happen to be looking at that point in time.
If I may add to this another thing I point out and am very consistent about. Religions DO change over time, I 100% agree.
Having said that, while one cannot force any religion out of existence, for to do so you'd have to become a monster, it is a mistake to focus on one narrow point in human history. There is not one religion in our species entire history that has not had it's transgressions against other religions, or even between the sub sects of the same umbrella religions.
Even in the history of Asia between Buddhist majorities. Japan and China have had their wars and have also committed acts of cruelty on each other.
My point is to say that it isn't the religion that causes an individual to be cruel or causes them to be compassionate, but our evolution.
Every nation, friend and foe alike, have hospitals and prisons. There were no religions 200,000 years ago, and without written religion, our species were even back then, displaying acts of cruelty and compassion.
If all we can do as a species, is argue for more compassionate interpretations of our different religions, that is a far better tactic than to demand the forced end of any one group. The only difference between a theist and I is that I simply doubt where they think our ability to do good and be good as a species is coming from. BUT, I will certainly take a Malala or Martin Luther King Jr, or an Ann Frank or a Gandhi over a monster like Hitler, or Po Pot, or KKK members or ISIS.
