Akshay First, thanks for answering Steve's questions. He seemed to have forgotten about the Spanish inquisition and the reformation movement in England that were done in the name of God and his messenger Jesus who is also referred too as the Prince of Peace.
One cannot take religion out of the People, Culture History and Language from which it was born. Moses and Pharaoh did not exactly exchange civility. Joshua's orders would be against every Geneva convention today. Eventually, given enough time, every religion catches up to the times, or the times catch up to the religion and people begin to realize that the words in these texts can be interpreted in many ways, or some have become obsolete and should be done away with. The crux of the problem lies in who does the interpretation and when do you stop. Take the issue of slavery. Neither the Koran nor the Old Testament ban such a bad practice. While the Old testament tells you how you can sell relatives, the Koran tells you to be kind to your slaves. For all practical purposes slavery is not practiced ( well at lest not in the open market), and if you ask any moderate religious person ( Muslim, Christian or Jew) about the idea of owning somebody they will tell you that it's not a nice thing to do. Now for the most part that practice has been done with ( go Abe Lincoln) and the MOQ has caught up to religion. Yet it is still on the books. Of course there are other issues, from let's pillage this planet because the rapture is coming and Man has dominion over this earth, to let's kill all the infidels living in our land. Again religion taken out of context. Then you pose the question about why would God chose a certain people to grace with his saviors, while letting others rot in hell. Here are a few answers: 1. The answer is 42 2. There is no God 3. There is a God, he keeps sending messengers, but in the end, man changes religion to fit his needs and likings. So he gives up 4. There is a God, he never sent any messengers. BUT he gave us a brain to create our own salvation. There is a God in all of us, and how we put that to work is our own choice. 5. God likes certain people better than others. 6. God knows that the rest of the world can get along fine, and figure out how to make it's own religion. As for those bastards living in the Middle East, God realized that he made a bad batch over there, so he keeps sending repairmen to get the problem fixed. It's like a bad Windows operation system. It's bad and no matter how many updates Microsoft send you, it's bad. Any way. take care Khaled Akshay Peshwe: > An interesting point of debate would be thus: do not religions > based > primarily on the teachings of one man stand on terribly slippery > ground? Why > did the world need a Jesus Christ or a Mohammed to be born into the > world > and to save the world? Was it not unfair to generations of human > living > before Jesus, to not have the supposed salvation (because of their > lack of > knowledge of his teachings)? Why would the Christian or the Islamic > religion, if it really is the highest truth, be in such a mortal > framework, > that it had to be confined to one supposedly perfect man, who was > born a > long time after humanity began on planet earth? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
