(May 30, 2010 at 3:22 pm)mo3taz3nbar Wrote:To start using your own mind is a good thing in my opinion. Start using the reason faculty you're equipped with and doubt both origin and content of quran texts. Than the question is not whether you should blindly follow ancient rules that are suposedly the teachings of an illiterate self-proclaimed hotline with god, jotted down and collected by many after him. Start asking whether this procedure ensures any authenticity and how to verify the claim of divine origin being made. Or start asking why the urge for total submission should be the hall mark of a good god.Quote:The nature of religion is such that it is impossible to falsify or verify any specific religious interpretation with religion itself. Religion provides no means to do so since there is no shared mechanism to conclusively verify or falsify the various claims. At the core of every religion are unfalsifiable claims. Anybody can start his own religion today, based on quran or any text you choose and start interpreting away. It does not help to suggest, as you do, to verify the different interpretations of the quran with the history of islam because the history of religious interpretation says nothing on intrinsic truth. Just as the history of catholicism is not a case for the truth of catholicism. In fact history shows that right from the start controversy on interpretations has been around.i disagree with u in this what anyone do is taking a text out of the Quran and ignoring others so they can do what they want to do these people power is in talking to non educated persons that cant even read or write as a 5 year old boy can answer them
and also u can use ur mind i myself when i want to know something i search in the Quran first and if i didnt understand i see the interpretation of scholars i trust if i read some interpretation for scholars i dont know i dont follow it blindly i just think about it(anyway we have interpretation from muhammed (pbuh) and from his closest companions and thats what u can trust
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0