Posted on 07/12/2019 6:48:06 PM PDT by robowombat
Sufism is the peaceful branch of Islam.
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Then they are not following the example and instruction of their prophet.
They are heretics.
Why be muslim if you reject the basic tenet of jihad?
Respect for human life so long as it’s not christian Hindi Jewish or Zoroastrian or Druze or African tribal religions or buddhist or anything other then Islamic
This is why they throw gay people off buildings, why virtually all Islamic governments are totalitarian police states, why Al Qaeda, ISIS, and others mass murder non-Muslims.
If this is so, vast swaths of people in "Islamic" countries who believe and call themselves Islamic aren't even living Islam. Not that I am terribly surprised. Islam arose around Mohammed whose life and ideas were, well, weird and unbalanced. A whole society that tried to live completely up to Mohammed's documented ideals would soon either murder or suicide itself.
I therefore don't argue about this. By the way, the worship in Islam, as well as the bowdlerized variants of it that make survival possible, isn't offerred to Mohammed, but to the "Allah" set forth by Mohammed, a god who occasionally borrows from things we recognize in Christianity and Judaism, but who also quickly loses his temper which is of a terribly wicked and arbitrary kind.
Civilized relations with the West is responsible for "Islam" not being even worse than it is. Fill your tank, prevent another jihad.
Professor,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3763661/posts
Syria: Muslims explode car bomb in front of church, murder at least seven Christians
You need to go back to school.
lolololololol. Is this ‘professor’ on meth or krokodil?
And in our ‘Christian’ country, vast swaths of people who call themselves Christian aren’t living it, either.
Part of why we are in a mach dive toward hell, in my opinion.
Does Islam condone abortion?
[[Duke Professor Omid Safi: Islam for 1,400 Years Has Had Clear Emphasis on “the Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life”]]
And they will put to death anyone that disagrees
Things are not black & white.
Would the pacifist Quakers agree with the Christian Crusades? I know that many of the crusades were in response to Muslim agression.
I had the good fortune to provide hospice care for several months for a devout Muslim who was an MD, surgeon who was never married nor had any family in the USA. We had many long conversations before he died. He gave me his Koran just prior to his death.
If you were to measure a Christian by how Christ like he was in his behavior, he was more of a Christian than 95% of proclaiming Christians.
I have been eternally grateful that this happened prior to 9-11
Islam has been defiling “the Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life” for 1,400 Years!
There, fixed it!
Moslems have murdered in excess of 270,000,000 non-Moslems since AD 622!
I have no idea how many Moslems have been murdered by Moslems in that period of time!
BTW, can someone please explain to me why Duke Professor Omid Safi has not been summarily fired?
“. . . he is a scholar.”
Not if he is speaking these lies!
If this is so, vast swaths of people in "Islamic" countries who believe and call themselves Islamic aren't even living Islam. Not that I am terribly surprised. Islam arose around Mohammed whose life and ideas were, well, weird and unbalanced. A whole society that tried to live completely up to Mohammed's documented ideals would soon either murder or suicide itself.
I therefore don't argue about this. By the way, the worship in Islam, as well as the bowdlerized variants of it that make survival possible, isn't offerred to Mohammed, but to the "Allah" set forth by Mohammed, a god who occasionally borrows from things we recognize in Christianity and Judaism, but who also quickly loses his temper which is of a terribly wicked and arbitrary kind.
Civilized relations with the West is responsible for "Islam" not being even worse than it is. Fill your tank, prevent another jihad.
Sufism represents a spiritualized re-interpretation of Islam in which the “jihad” or struggle is no longer literal, which means also editing out a lot of the context that Mohammed put into the Koran.
That actually renders it into one of the more pacifistic religions on earth, and it could even be a covert operation of Christ. It’s harder to fight against the God of the Jews (and Christians) than one would think.
Christians can easily coast, resulting not in loss of their personal salvation (salvation is an absolute promise) but in loss of the glory that they would otherwise raise unto God.
Our dive may seem severe by some measures (i.e. the resurgence of homosexuality) but it’s still mild compared with many historical examples.
Allow me to say that first and foremost, I am a Christian who has accepted Jesus as my savior.
That being said, I focus on gaining understanding rather than focusing just on differences.
In many ways, the Old Testament is pro war while the New Testament is anti-war. Both are important in our sacred texts, but they differ greatly. I personally focus much more on the NT and the teachings of Jesus.
The same is true in Islam. I know that Omid is a pacifist. He is a gentle man. Islam needs more like him.
Devout Christians become more Christ like.
Devout muslims become more Mohammed like.
It’s clearly evident which is closer to God.
No, not at all.
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