RE: [Quranic Reflection]: What should Muslims do when the verses of God are made fun of?
September 9, 2020 at 2:47 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2020 at 2:48 am by WinterHold.)
(September 4, 2020 at 7:46 am)Angrboda Wrote: Well, if the question is what should a Muslim do, then presumably their highest duty is Islam and submission to God. That being the case, the combined corpus of the Quran, including its holding Mohammed out as an example of correct conduct, says different things at different times. So the advice that Mohammed and the Quran provides on the matter is self-contradictory, and no single ethic can be provided. As such, it gives no guidance as to what to do, and leaves Muslims to do what religionists the world over have been doing since time immemorial in doing whatever the fuck they feel like and then cherry-picking the support for their actions.
If the goal of Islam is the submission to God, not the submission to the religious institution; thus following the Quran is at the top of the pyramid for a Muslim.
A Muslim who replaces the top of the pyramid with anything else is not following Islam's message; but rather following the mutations represented in the Sunni/Shiite schools.
As for contradictions in the Quran, that is a blocked path because me -and billions across 1400 years- read the book and concluded that it has no contradiction.
