FranklinMichaelV.3
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Many religions can not be reduced to their scriptures.
Sola Scriptura is not that old. And even so, different denominations will have different set interpretations of it.[/quote]
Can you name a few? And I understand that their will be different interpretations of the scripture, but that is not the point I'm arguing. I'm arguing that their is absolutely ZERO scriptural evidence no matter how it is interpreted, to support child marriage in the Quran. Even the Muslim who admitted to marrying a child, and defended the practice admitted this.
What is Islam in your opinion?
The Bible actually clearly states that Moses says to keep the women children for yourselves. It also says to kill all the men and boys, and all the women and/or girls that are not virgins. It does not actually say they had sex with them, but it could easily be interpreted that way.
What the Bible says about pedophilia
Is that Christian in your opinion? And even so, the Quran does not even have anything that could be interpreted as promoting child marriage.
Exactly, so would you hold the religion responsible, or the individual person?
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia might qualify as 3rd world countries, but the UAE is the richest country in the world. I don't think it qualifies.
Indeed, this is why American's don't care. If they can't sense it in some way first hand, then it's not real.
The sad thing is, America and/or Europe has contributed to this in almost every area through colonialism or direct involvment in politics, such as in the case of the reinstallment of the Shah in Iran.
In Afganistan, one of the reasons why terrorism is so prevalent is because the terrorists groups give food to the hungry. Who are you more likely to side with: Someone who's feeding you when your hungry, or someone who is offering you an abstract concept?
Ideals don't feed the hungry.
A truer statment has never been spoken.
On some levels I agree with you, and on some levels I disagree. America is by far, the greatest country in the world, but the fact that we have done very little to nothing to help these poverty stricken areas makes us no better than anyone else in my opinion. Just different.
And this is why we are the greatest, but the problem is with all of the things you said in your earlier posts. This only happens in America because we have corrupted and/or oppressed every other place in the world in order to be able to have this type of freedom.
Naw, the people in charge just realized that they can make more money, if they break us off a few crumbs of the pie. The American population looks the other way because we enjoy eating our crumbs.
You refuse to accept the teachings of the Quran yourself.
No, He said clearly that the Quran does not condone or support his actions. How can you still say this is religious?
The horses mouth has repeatedly said that his actions are not justified by the Quran. He simply uses the facade of it being supported by Islam, to make himself feel better, even though it is clearly not.[/QUOTE]
At it's core Islam is submission to God, there maybe more to it that I am not aware of.
If it's practiced today I would hold Christanity responsible or in that particular case Judaism (Given it's from the OT you are quoting these bible sources). There are many things I do hold Christianity responsible for, but I look at religion as dynamic and the atempt to get closer to God, just because it was thought to be good back then does not mean it should be applied today. It should also be reviewed continously, debated continously. We aren't static creatures we change, we develop, for us to assume that how things were done 1000 years ago will always apply today to me is foolish.
