Posted on 08/12/2016 7:33:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
The president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences has acknowledged that passages of the Qu’ran seem to offer clear support for the use of violence.”
Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo said that it would be “naïve” to ignore the problematical passages of the Qu’ran, and it is a major challenge for Islamic leaders to “give a peaceful hermeneutic to these passages”—particularly in light of pressure from extremists.”
Bishop Sanchez Sorondo said that he “wouldn’t dream of telling Muslims how to interpret their faith,” but that any moderate Islamic scholars willing to take up the challenge of denouncing violence would “find a strong ally and friend in the Catholic Church.”
Muslims who interpret Quran peacefully 'find a strong ally' in the Church (CNA)
In fact, the entity that they worship expects them to lie to "infidels."
The Qur’an is only about 15% of Islam. The Sura and Hadith are the two major components that govern every good Moslem’s daily life.
These two other books are the core, they instruct followers on how to do everything from which foot to step on the toilet first to how to commit jihad and beat your wife. There is no peace in Islam, none. The books are all about conquest and enslavement. It’s a cult that must be outlawed in America or America will cease to exist.
“give a peaceful hermeneutic to these passages”
Nah, they should just give it a non-violent interpretation.
Good luck, trying to reason with a culture anchored in a Pre Enlightenment mentality. How do you expect to reason with a culture that has never passed through the Age of Reason instead retreating into it's ever repressing theocratic morass.
No man can change the Koran.
Mad Mo made it so.
at least SOMEBODY in the Vatican acknowledges that Islam is violent, dangerous to us
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"I have left among you two matters by holding fast to which, you shall never be misguided: the Book of God and my Sunna [example]."--- Muhammad
Muhammad is seen as the living Quran, the embodiment of God's will in his behavior and words.
That's why you can't sanitize any of the aggressive passages of the Koran by, say, a more spiritualized or allegorical interpretation. You can't get past the fact that Muhammad himself was an aggressor, a warlord, and a sexual abuser of captured women: delusional and --- in the last years of his life --- relentlessly lustful and bloody-handed.
There is not peaceful interpretation of the Koran.
The only peaceful Muslim is one that isn't very religious.
I would challenge anyone to prove otherwise to me, because even the regular almost agnostic Muslims could favor abuse of others based on the Koran.
This is a Charles Manson like cult where a War Lord declared himself a god and a population of mostly brain nutritionally deprived people have been stuck for generations with no alternative.
In this cult lots of barbaric criminality is praised, so it's IMO like trying to convert a population of mass murderers to social reform and western civility. Good luck to civilized people with that.
The problem isn’t that Islam is “pre-Enlightenment,” it’s that it’s anti-rational and anti-Christian.
This is like asking a great white shark to go on a vegan diet.
This religious leader is more realistic than the Pope.
Tell us sweet lies before you kill us.
I vow to… exalt the true Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet [Islam] in the East. -Pope Callixtus III
Really are there any Catholic men left in the Vatican?
Islam would benefit from contextualization, just as Christians have said the death sentences for homosexuals and adulterers in Leviticus are for then and there not here and how.
There are several impediments to this in Islam:
* The Koran says it is perfect and absolute, and those who undermine its message face a death penalty. So reformers risk their lives per the fundamentalist version of the faith.
* Islam was early tolerant faith that morphed into a violent one. For example, early verses said don’t come to mosque drunk, get along with fellow monotheists, pray toward Jerusalem. Then Mohamed was rejected as a messiah by the Jews and turned against everyone but fellow Muslims, hatred of them, calls to kill them. You get the later verses that say pray to Mecca, don’t drink alcohol ever, death to the infidel. The later verses override the earlier ones, and the Koran has sections explaining this - that it was showing you the way. This explanation and schema prohibits using the peaceful verses as the “true” Islam.
* Mohamed is held up as the perfect man. His last words were to call for killing Jews. He led war parties to kill all the Jewish men in villages, taking women and children as slaves. When the man held up as the perfect example to emulate led wars of religious conquest and took sex slaves, it is another impediment to peace with the ideology.
Erdogan said “There is no radical Islam, only Islam” What more do you need to know?
Islam, the religion of peace? The eventual peace will be the consequence of conquest. It means constant war until islam is the world.
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