(April 30, 2013 at 11:06 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: One can argue the Quran teaching regarding peace and war is dualistic, or someone can see it's situational. Different circumstances call for peace, different circumstances call for war. As the primary and first commands were that of peace, war can be seen as only as the option when there is no way for peace.
As not all circumstances are detailed in Quran, people have to use their own minds to determine when war is applicable or not. Bin Laden has own interpretation as do other Muslims. But to argue that Bin Laden has support from Quran is missing the greater picture which is the circumstantial nature of the peace and war verses.
Some food for thought about perspective and relativity of the situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE
As a pessamistic person, After what I just say I would rather have be wrong that Islam is a violent idealogy that seeks global domination then right and my rights and freedoms taken by as greater threat as Nazism or Comunism, and I would rather be in christian america then Islamic Europe as at the moment Christianity looks like the lesser of two evils.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
