RE: Should Muhammad have known alcohol is amazing at killing germs?
May 21, 2015 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 4:52 pm by Prince.)
(May 21, 2015 at 3:38 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote:(May 21, 2015 at 9:22 am)paulpablo Wrote: The quran actually does say that it has benefits, yet the sin outweighs the benefits.
Sahih International
They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, "In them is great sin and [yet, some] benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit."
First off, I'm not keen on Sahih International. For example, it forces the word sperm into Quran 23:14 as the translation is contaminated by the science in the Quran narrative, as it is a much more recent translation than many of the others. Sahih International is a poisonous translation. It was translated in Saudi Arabia and they spend billions propagating Fascism.
Secondly, I'm not sure that verse is really a good defence of the Quran. The verse is only talking about wine, a particular type of alcohol. If, as is claimed that the Quran says, the sins of interacting with (any) alcohol really do outweigh the risks then it implies that Allah does not value human life because no exception is made for medical purposes.
The ingestion of alcohol, it can be argued, does have many more risks than benefits but the Quran isn't saying this. The Quran never says that in future alcohol will be used to combat the spread of infection. That would have been an excellent prediction by Muhammad.
Allow me to translate this verse from Arabic into English, I am actually a translator and can clarify things way better. According to the Arabic verse, it says:
It basically saying that "consuming alcohol is a great sin", the reason why it is a sin, because it alters the human mind and his behavior. The person might commit evil rather than good. That is the only explanation why Alcohol is prohibited. It also talks about "gambling", it is prohibited because it causes more harm to the person who lost all his money, if he lost the gambling for instance.
Benefits of Alcohol: it doesn't say any particular benefits in the verse... but if you go back to the Gospel, it mentions about benefits of alcohol and how it heals wounds.
Benefits of gambling: it will make the person who won the gambling richer...
"Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious..." - Michael Stipe
