(January 22, 2013 at 4:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They don't have a fucking pope who is supposed to be the Boss Hooter when it comes to holy horseshit, though.
That leaves every nutjob free to run his mouth in an attempt to gain market share among the lunatics.
I understand that you don't want to be like protestants....but I can assure you that they feel the same way about you.
No Mcrubbish, you're wrong in this one.
Protestants are (above all) christians, so they believe in the regular bible (with some changes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Bible
The bible itself is a big problem, with a lot of totally different explanations for one verse.
Islam is totally different, In the Quran I can understand that some verses might lead to several explanations, but in "small details". Verses which speak about critical believes are all clear. Thus muslims have no identity or believe crises when it comes to the Quran.
Example : this verse from the Quran
و إذ قال عيسى ابن مريم يا بني اسرائيل إني رسول الله إليكم مصدقاً لما بين يدي من التوراة و مبشراً برسول يأتي من بعدي اسمه أحمد فلما جائهم بالبينات قالوا هذا سحر مبين
Translation :
Jesus christ said : sons of Israel, I'm the prophet of god, a believer in what I have between my hands from the Torah, and promising with a prophet that would come after me, his name is "Ahmed", then when he came to them with evidence they said this is a very obvious magic.
Now, me & my fellow muslims might have different explanations for why Mohammad was preached by jesus with the name (ahmed), we might have different explenation for why jesus was believing in what he had in the torah, while we think the torah became corrupted at his time.
But the main idea, which our believe stands on cannot change, because the verse is obvious :
god sent jesus to the jews, jesus told the jews about mohammad. End of story.
this goes with all the quran : little tiny details are interpreted in different ways, but the main concept stays the same.
Concept is the most important thing.
Now mcrubbish, christians until today are not even sure about the concept of their religion.
Is it love or war ? the crusaders & their church had a different pov, now you'll never find that in Islam.
