RE: Time to embrace Islam!
December 19, 2019 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2019 at 9:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 18, 2019 at 7:02 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Do you think fucking Merriam Webster will define accurately such a complicated judicial concept belonging to eastern tradition ?That's a strange question in the manner that it was framed and in the contents. Yes, a dictionary can be trusted to define words. Apostasy isn't a concept belonging to any particularly tradition - every religious authority, of every religion, has had to deal with the problem of dissenters and free riders. No matter what language is being spoken, and no matter what religion the people speaking it belong to, they've all been discussing the subject of apostasy, what to do with apostates, and the justifications for whatever course of action they may take.
Now, apostasy in christianity isn't what it used to be, but apostasy in islam is -exactly- what apostasy in christianity used to be, when it was still in power. If the governing authority of your state is also the religion of your state, then a rejection of religious authority is politically treasonous.
This is how the classical pagan intelligentsia of rome conceptualized christians as apostates, and how christians then conceptualized their own dissenters as apostates when they became the governing authority, and...on and on and on, until we get to islam doing the same thing, in the same situation, for the same reasons. It's not complicated, it's just tedious.
As to the other matter, I would be surprised if there's any significant difference between our moral systems, Kloro. It would be a fun experiment to try and come up with any moral declarations that you think can only be made by, for example..a muslim (and the right kind of muslim, whichever kind that is). I'd contend..sight unseen, that I could strip all of the god from the statement while retaining the moral content, for which every culture and every person, religious or otherwise, has an analog - just like apostasy and treason.
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