(October 14, 2014 at 6:49 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: I'm sorry but whenever someone says 'I'm a Muslim' I automatically take it as given that they espouse everything written in the Quran. Why? Because that's what being a Muslim entails. Would it not be blasphemy to reject part of the word of Allah as interpreted by Mohammed?
Same with the bible. Nowhere does it say 'this story is allegorical', so how on earth are we supposed to know when talking to a theist what part they accept and what part they reject unless it comes up in discussion?
I think that is the point he is making - since most of the Christians and Muslims don't espouse everything written in the Bible and Quran, you should know that the assumption that "being a Christian or Muslim entails following the scripture" is incorrect. That is why you should not automatically assume that that is what they do.
