RE: The issue of Blasphemy in Islam
October 2, 2022 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2022 at 3:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 2, 2022 at 3:23 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: 1) That’s not how I see it no.We must be miscomminicating - that's okay, I honestly doubt we can go very far with this one.
Quote:2) Abrahamic religions don’t like idols.What religions say about themselves, vs what religions actually do and are.
I think that beliefs about a sacred and magical book that ends up a prized and well cared for possession are direct stand ins for the idols you may be more familiar with. They perform the function of idols, and are believed to have similar supernatural powers as those idols, and are treated like those idols. Many neopagans use their own magic books in precisely the same way.
Quote:There is the story of Abraham breaking down the idols in a temple with an axe and then putting the axe in the hand of the last remaining idol and telling the guardians of the temple “He must have done it. There is life in him isn’t there?”.Monotheism doesn't do that, you may do that...though I think it's questionable whether or not you actually do refuse idolatry.... but it's not a requirement of or rule for monotheism.
Even Christian depictions of Jesus, the apostles and the virgin were at one time broken down by iconoclasts (during the Reign of the emperor Justinian I If I remember correctly). So no, monotheism refuses idolatry.
If I had to guess, you think you refuse it because of a narrow and dogmatically important bit about offending god. Which, conveniently, is why I think you might want to reassess islams relationship to a magic book. If that sort of thing is unwarranted, and forbidden, and offends god....... well.
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