rEvolutionist wrote:Exi5tentialist wrote:rEvolutionist wrote:The holy books of Islam, like those of Christianity and Judaism, are misogynist and bigoted.
The holy books of Islam, like those of Christianity and Judaism, are irrelevant. They became irrelevant a fairly short time after their authors died. The authors of those books are long dead, they have no power, their writings have no power. They are dead and gone. Gone forever.
If you want to join forces with those muslims, christians and jews who say that millenia-old markings on bits of paper have some kind of power over anybody in 2016, you go ahead and stand shoulder to shoulder with those who believe in that woo. I'm an atheist. I don't believe that books have a God-like immortality.
When whatever interpretation of whatever religion puts some of that misogyny and bigotry into practice it is perfectly reasonably to criticise them for it.
You say "interpretation", I say "projection". Between those two words there is a sea of ideological difference.
This has gone beyond farcical. You now seriously maintain that religious people don't follow and interpret the religious texts? Really?
Yes, that's right. They don't follow and interpret religious texts.
They read religious texts, project their chosen meanings onto it, then act accordingly.
Good luck in your fantasy world. I'll leave you to it.
On the contrary, it is you who has swallowed wholesale the religious idea that "the word" can be transmitted through many generations of dead people, and resurrected in its original form by the living two millenia later.
That, my friend, is complete woo.
Same as most of us are easier on Anglicanism than Catholicism.
Well that just says it all doesn't it. The religions of white western origin you go easier on.
Man, you can find anything to get offended at, can't you? It says exactly what it says. Within any religion there are some sects/order/denominations/etc that are worse than others. And that goes for Islam. Shove your disingenuous quotemine up your arse.
Oh, so over-generalisation doesn't happen then?
It does.
And you know it does.
And it actually wasn't a "quotemine". This whole discussion is about islam and its many manifestations - everybody knows the context in which you said you go easier on catholicism and anglicanism.
