(January 8, 2015 at 12:35 am)MysticKnight Wrote: The verses that are seen to contradict can be seen in context of a defensive war and in context of the verses that say for example that permission was given to fight because they were oppressed and being fought, and to fight only those who fight them..and so on and so forth.
I don't know why anyone would suggest Mohammad contradicted himself there when it can easily be interpreted in a way that doesn't contradict.
The Jewish OT, the Christian Bible and the Koran, are all ancient books of myth reflecting the people that wrote them and a reflection of their own desires to have power and control.
There is nothing moral about them other than a superficial excuse to protect the tribe. They do not reflect any modern reality of pluralism in the secular west.
And any one of these alleged gods are pricks, if one wants to pretend these god/s are real for writing convoluted manuals everyone fights over.
I would not hire these alleged god/s to run a bicycle factory. The bikes would end up with squid for spokes and the workers would murder each other as to how the manual tells them to assemble the bikes.
"You are taking it out of context" is a cop out excuse. It allows both liberal and fundy to cherry pick and ignore it is the same manual.
