(April 28, 2012 at 3:21 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(April 28, 2012 at 3:07 am)FallentoReason Wrote: ...
So it was interesting to see that he was rational in his reasons for leaving Christianity, but then I'm not sure what he saw in Islam that was rational to him. Maybe he isn't as informed as some of us with the history of it all.
Interesting. Seems that the arguments used for believing Islam are very similar to what I've heard for Christianity (i.e. Gospels mention real places in detail, a mass of followers wouldn't have arisen unless Jesus existed and did what the Bible says, etc, etc, etc).
Yes, very true. He did mention something to me and I was surprised that he was ok with that. "Qur'an" literally means 'the recitation' which is referring to the recitation of Mohammed's revelations amongst that community. How long was this 'recitation' or oral tradition going on for exactly? 10 years he said, until Mohammed was getting close to dying so they got literate people to start writing everything down.
Oral traditions aren't something I find rational to believe in. The OT is the same thing and the Gospels are short bursts of oral tradition i.e. hearsay... The Qur'an boldly states it's no different to this!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
