(August 11, 2018 at 3:55 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(August 11, 2018 at 11:47 am)Aroura Wrote: Islam is whatever the people currently practice it make it out to be. Just like Christianity and Buddhism and every other religion, it changes over time.
And it varies from location to location as well as well as sect to sect and person to person.
There is no "true" Islam. There is only whatever the modern interpretation is, wherever you happen to be looking at that point in time.
This would be true if God didn't provide a representative that would the official representative and the one who humans have to return to, to return to the chosen word of guidance of God remaining in the line and offspring of Abraham, who was the official representative of the creed in his time.
This one reason among many why the religion cannot really exist in true form without a leader and guide from God!
Even if Atlas say had the right interpretation of Islam, he has no proof from God, and no one is required to pay attention to him or me or anyone without proof from God that their view of Islam is the correct interpretation of God's religion.
Mystic, can you try for once to lose the romance in your argument?
Between the two of you, he is far less likely to go off the deep end and go ISIS on anyone.
The "right interpretation".
Yep, every religion, including Jews and Christians and Buddhists ....... ect ect ect..
If you'd only swallow my version.
Look I do get it, I used to believe in a god myself. But there is no "correct" interpretation.
No matter which religion anyone of any religion argues, it is still the same, "I like what I believe and anyone else even in my same religion with a different interpretation got it wrong."
Every religion does this. Baptists argue with Catholics, Catholics argue with Mormons but none of them want to face it all stems from the same Christian God. Just like Sunnis and Shiites refuse to face it is the same Koran.
How you wish others would behave who claim the same label are equally Muslim as you are. Not because they always do good, but because they hold the same book to be true but interpret it differently.
I take the same approach with even my fellow atheists. Stalin was an atheist, I am an atheist. He was a monster regardless of how I wanted him or any atheist to behave. Holding the same position between diverse people does not change that the core position are the same.
