(November 18, 2014 at 12:42 pm)Khansins Wrote:(November 17, 2014 at 8:47 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Okay kansins, let me ask this. Your a moderate, say I'm a wahabist. we are publically debating who's veiw of islam is right, you read that passage from the qur'an and I say it supports this and you say no mohammed is saying that. The thing is that as with most holy books it can be interpreted to support either view, how can you prove interpretation is right and mine is wrong when what we are doing is interpreting a text from a long dead author?
You are very right. This is a danger which befalls when you start using Quran as a tool to justify yourself. Personally , I think first of Prophet Muhammad like if he was in my place , what would He have done ? And almost every time I have found a solution to my answers which satisfied me. For me , 'humanism' comes first. And I believe Islam is humanism. So when I will interpret something from Quran , I will do so positively with a positive perspective along with looking for texts that are for universal mankind .
The problem is that many others don't. They take the Quran and the Hadiths and derive an inhuman worldview, a murderous, misogynistic, evil one.
That is a problem.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
