The Issue of Idolatry in Abrahamic Religions

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^I’m confused. By your definition, how can the murder of Paty be an act of idolatry? In his murder of Paty, Anzotov was displaying an extreme attachment to what he believed was ‘the power that arranges the movement of galaxies and stars’.

Unless, of course, you mean that we should only have extreme attachment to things like gravity and angular momentum. Which seems kinda weird.

Boru

I’m going to share the Wikipedia link on that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty
 
The murderer (whatever his name is) killed him because this teacher organized a debate in his class while showing one of the nude comics of the Prophet that were published in the French Satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo.
 
Now we all respect our prophets and we teach little children they should be respectful of such important religious figures no matter what (or that’s how I was raised).
 
Still, I don’t have a personal connection with any of the prophets.
Ex: Trolls (political İslamist trolls) were talking about one of the young wives of the prophet a few years ago. And I didn’t even engage in that discussion. In a situation like this, I will see the rubbish and I will move away.
 
I am mostly about the spiritual teaching of these prophets and/or other visionary, saintly or spiritual people.
 
Other Example: Someone wrote a book here about the Sufi Mystic Rumi in which he was depicted as a homosexual etc. Again: I didn’t even know this guy, so even if that was true, that’s not what I am about in this context. I am after the spiritual messages that will be beneficial to me. It’s all about me basically. I really don’t have any worry about anyone else outside me (that’s how I understand the whole issue).
 
So, I am not even talking about murder here. I think that even being overly reactive to one of the examples given above is a sign of idolatry. I am about the teaching of prophets, Atheist comics that seemingly mock these persons are not even within my area of interest.
 
So yes, this Idiot has a huge Ego. He felt like people insulted his deity. So he committed a sacrifice of blood to make it right. So may Marduk bless him for that but (from my own personal experience) this is not / has never been our way of doing things (not really, no)

But, by your definition, the brutal murder of Paty still doesn’t qualify as idolatry.

Boru