RE: God's law or private law?
January 12, 2023 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2023 at 11:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well..he did serve...wouldn't surprise me if he killed a few muslims. This is a rarified bunch, but were all pretty well aware that islam means submission - and that's certainly a problem that taliban fighters have. See..when you genuinely believe in submission...and your conscience says "fuck this shit", well..fuck that conscience. The whole point is submission. They're definitely muslims, but I suppose that it's easier to try and pull their muslim card than to confront the issues...even as you see them..with your shared magic book, and your shared god. I doubt you share a common humanity, but you do share a common religion. As for who else fits in the category with the taliban..as you tell it...according to magic book..any so-called "enemy of islam". You're polishing a turd on this one, searching for pearls of tolerance and strong moral fiber in a 7th century warlords treatise on identity and obedience. There's nothing opposite any "original teaching" in conceiving of pagans at war with muslims as attacking god. That's the constant excuse said warlord gives in the magic book in question.
New age teachings "seem crazy" because they're a buffet style hodgepodge of mismatching elements which do not reflect their respective traditions. There's nothing wrong with the word religion..there's nothing inherently wrong with religion as a phenomena- there's a whole hell of alot wrong with some religions. It's amazing to me that the people who want to improve their religions cling to those shitty parts of the originating faiths.
As for the cleric.....just as soon as any of you can show that you know a single thing about Real Spirituality™ we can have some discussion about which of the two of you, some nutball cleric, or your nutball self, knows more about it. Until then, there's a fundamental equivalence between the two of you. You don;t like his religion...but you're no closer to establishing that he's wrong than you are to establishing that you are right - and the sad part is that you haven't even tried. Hobbled by some lazy insistence on what a god is asserted to have said..or not said.
New age teachings "seem crazy" because they're a buffet style hodgepodge of mismatching elements which do not reflect their respective traditions. There's nothing wrong with the word religion..there's nothing inherently wrong with religion as a phenomena- there's a whole hell of alot wrong with some religions. It's amazing to me that the people who want to improve their religions cling to those shitty parts of the originating faiths.
As for the cleric.....just as soon as any of you can show that you know a single thing about Real Spirituality™ we can have some discussion about which of the two of you, some nutball cleric, or your nutball self, knows more about it. Until then, there's a fundamental equivalence between the two of you. You don;t like his religion...but you're no closer to establishing that he's wrong than you are to establishing that you are right - and the sad part is that you haven't even tried. Hobbled by some lazy insistence on what a god is asserted to have said..or not said.
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