RE: why not religionism ?
April 3, 2021 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2021 at 8:42 pm by Belacqua.)
(April 3, 2021 at 7:44 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Questioning a religion is important. It helps to develop argumentative skills and encourages exchange of information. Each party learns from each other. If a muslim is calling a person who criticizes islam an islamaphobe (in the same sense as racism) then that muslim has not developed the skills yet to deal with the criticisms or simply, there is no proper response at all.
100% agreed on this.
Each of us should be able to discuss and defend his beliefs in a temperate way. This of course includes religious people as well as atheists whose beliefs cause them to reject religious claims.
But if the criticism is unfair or just flat out bigoted, then we're allowed to say that. There is criticism which is over the top, unrelated to fact, and unfair, and it's good to call this bigoted.
Quote:If islam claims that it should not be criticized and claims that violence should be used when I criticize it, then I have a large problem with that. It is a religion that does not belong in my sector.
Agreed. Violence is not the way. Muslims should react temperately to fair criticism, Americans should stop using Islam as an excuse to do violence in majority-Muslim countries, the US should stop supporting al Qaeda for political purposes, etc.
Quote:I agree. Islam is often on the news when it comes to terrorism. There sure are a lot of islamic terrorist groups.
This may say more about the news sources you watch than Islam.
Quote:Where did muslims get this idea that a woman should cover there body parts?
Is it cultural or is it something that is said by one of their "prophets".
All cultures say that women should cover their body parts. Get your wife to walk naked into Walmart and see if they're OK with it.
Different cultures have different rules about how many body parts.
Quote:Women are treated as second class citizens in judaism, christianity, islam, mormonism.
And in many pagan cultures. It predates any of these religions.
Quote:Women are often nameless in these "holy" books. There is very little information about them. Often, the story revolves around the males.
Even the son of the jewish god is a male and so are his 12 followers.
The Bible gives detailed biographical information for very few of its characters. There are a number of important female characters. The lives of Ruth and Esther are more extensively described in the Old Testament than that of most male characters. Since the vast majority of Christianity has not been sola scriptura, detailed accounts of the lives of many female characters are well known from other sources, including figures from scripture itself and later saints and holy figures.
See for example the Legenda aurea by Jacobus de Varagine.