RE: [Quranic Reflection]: the true face of murder
April 6, 2020 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2020 at 11:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm sure that you, personally, have some way to make it nicer in your mind. I doubt that you would if it was referring the the great satan of the west, whose destruction you wish for with some regularity, though.
Verses like the one you're retconning...ofc...can be, have been, and were intended to generate violence and othering. Pretext for holy war. In this, magic book causes those believers to feel much the same way you do about the great satan. Regardless of what you believe about a magic book, this is it's product. If your silly god wrote the book, and didn't intend it to do this...then your silly god is a fuckup.
There's your "true face of murder". A god so inept that it's own chosen words lead inexorably to human beings killing each other. I know, I know, you think that the sunni or the shia fucked it up, or broadly that it's just not gods fault and man fucked it up. Sure, why not. May as well blame the animals for the zookeepers shortcomings too.
It's amazing to me that, for a believer, the buck never stops with the most intelligent and powerful being in the universe, the being which set it all in motion and which allegedly claims that all that happens is and can only be it's will.
Ultimately, this is why religions like yours end up doing and getting away with so much shit, imo. They're a complete abrogation of responsibility, of any kind, for anything - combined with an insistence on justice deferred to some next life. The combined effect frees adherents from obligation and consequence in this life.
Verses like the one you're retconning...ofc...can be, have been, and were intended to generate violence and othering. Pretext for holy war. In this, magic book causes those believers to feel much the same way you do about the great satan. Regardless of what you believe about a magic book, this is it's product. If your silly god wrote the book, and didn't intend it to do this...then your silly god is a fuckup.
There's your "true face of murder". A god so inept that it's own chosen words lead inexorably to human beings killing each other. I know, I know, you think that the sunni or the shia fucked it up, or broadly that it's just not gods fault and man fucked it up. Sure, why not. May as well blame the animals for the zookeepers shortcomings too.
It's amazing to me that, for a believer, the buck never stops with the most intelligent and powerful being in the universe, the being which set it all in motion and which allegedly claims that all that happens is and can only be it's will.
Ultimately, this is why religions like yours end up doing and getting away with so much shit, imo. They're a complete abrogation of responsibility, of any kind, for anything - combined with an insistence on justice deferred to some next life. The combined effect frees adherents from obligation and consequence in this life.
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