(November 11, 2011 at 8:46 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: So essentially you reject the Qur'an and the Hadiths and insert your OWN "Interpretations" ?
No.
We may reject Hadiths which contradict the Quran, or if the chain of narrations are weak, but we never reject anything from the Quran. Secondly, yes, they is definitely subjectivity involved in interpretations, but if done honestly and carefully, and without being biased against anyone, then most likely we should be able to arrive at the correct interpretations.
(November 11, 2011 at 10:13 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: These holy books can be used to defend any argument you wish to make and any act you wish to undertake.
Not really.
(See my comments above).(November 11, 2011 at 11:47 am)5thHorseman Wrote: nice presumption but i am actually interested in other cultures.
Okay, that's good. But we were talking about religion, not culture, so it would have been more accurate to say that you are interested in other religions, right? Also, I was specifically talking about the scholarly works on hadith classification, and if you're interested in that (which I said that I was doubting), then I don't have any objections.
But yes, there are shit Muslims living in shit holes in certain Islamic countries who justify death sentences for things like apostasy and blasphemy (i.e. by using the hadiths).
