Huh??? There is only ONE true religion that has been handed down by God.
Here is what is wrong with your “critical look at Islam”. Unless you are an Islamic scholar who has studied Islam from the inside, you have no authority to say what Islam means. It is like someone with only a passing knowledge of Catholicism making statement about what “Catholics believe” through random selections of the Old Testament. Sure, you can tell them about how Catholicism is made up of scripture plus Tradition plus revelation and the on-going guidance of the Holy Spirit through the Church, but their selected quote from Leviticus tells them everything they need to know, they are not going to listen to you. Similarly, your mind is made up by selected quotes from the Koran and the words of those radical jihadists who are more like renegade priests. You are no more justified in proclaiming what Islam is than that hypothetical anti-Catholic who makes his decision on his selected quote from Leviticus and from the actions of the Irish Republican Army.
I’m not going to tell Muslims any thing about their religion. My point is they need to do it and figure things out. They need to analyze their religion, which they aren’t allowed to do.
You say they haven’t figured things out. They say they have. Who is more qualified to speak on this question?
So you say. They would disagree.
I did not say Islam is just like Catholicism. I said that your criticism of Islam is just like someone ignorant of Catholicism criticizing the Church.
According to your logic, no outsider of a religion is ever able to form a reasonable opinion about the said religion. If that’s the case, how can people convert from one religion to another?
That is why we have RCIA.
Yes, and the first and most obvious one is the behavior of the vast majority of adherents to that faith, which you choose to ignore. Instead you go back 1400 years and play Islamic scholar, saying what Islam believes, and then applying that to Muslims of today. That is a very indirect and shaky way of determining what Muslims believe today, which is the more relevant factor when considering the threat of terrorism or the dangers of immigration.
I agree Trump is the most “left wing” Repub in several decades. But:
One doesn’t have to go back 1400 years. One merely has to look at the news to realize there is a deadly element in today’s Islam; an element that goes to other countries to kill, but has no problem raping, torturing and killing “its own” because of minor variations in doctrine, belief or act.
It’s interesting: 10% of Muslims favor violent jihad, but the left tells us that Islam is peaceful and we should welcome all the “refugees” with open arms. Last year, there were roughly 10,000 “firearm-related” deaths in the US. Even if we assume that every one of them was a murder, and were all committed by different individuals, that’s a rate of .01%. But the left says we need to enact tighter gun control, even to the point of banning people from owning guns.
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Your 10% figure is not based on the percentage of Muslims that are terrorists or favor violent jihadist terrorism. Muslims have a more nuanced meaning of “jihad” that for most Muslims is more akin to the Christian notion of Evangelisation. A much smaller portion of them actually promote the kind of jihad you are thinking of.
Do you disagree with our Holy Father, Pope Francis, who respects other religions? Pope Francis has openly said that people of other religions, and even people with no religion at all, will end up in heaven.
I don’t think left-wing applies to Trump. In the US, we have for some reason decided that all politics are either “left” or "right.’ That is simply not the case - there are lots of different flavors out there, even if most don’t play well in the US. Trump is a populist and a nationalist (and an opportunist). I don’t think he fits into either party’s ordinary definition of “left” and “right”.
Which is entirely up to Christ…
Sorry.
