(December 4, 2014 at 5:05 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Is my not leaving out minorities relevant to the conversation really so bizarre?
I know you prefer the line by line parrying, but I find it a bit tedious. I apologize in advance if it results in me overlooking something you find particularly important or interesting.
Aisha's age was not the focus of my original tongue in cheek reply to Mystic, but rather the inference that hadiths are of little importance to the historic and current practices of Islam. Perhaps I should have been more clear. Although, you seemed to have understood this since you were arguing the same by invoking the primacy of the Qu'ran and a very small minority of Muslims that find no authority in the hadiths.
I have no problem with the distinctions in and of themselves, but with the way you are using them to suggest that the hadiths are of little consequence to the practice of Islam. I admitted that the distinctions were valid and even gave my opinion regarding Qu'ranists, which you seem to share. What I can't agree to is the idea that these distinctions somehow make the hadiths and their use as a basis for Sharia Law insignificant or non-Islamic.
I invoked KSA and Iranian capital punishment as a means of demonstrating how using different hadiths doesn't change the result. The executions are justified by the hadiths; therefore, they are most certainly Islamic and not just a characteristic of the state/culture. Citing another religion that also uses its holy texts as justification for atrocities strengthens my point.
