Stupid Koran Day!
Here's an odd theological assertion:
"And call not, besides Allah, on another god. There is no god but He. Everything that exists will perish except His Face. To Him belongs the Command, and to Him will you be brought back." Sura 28:88
That sounds oddly Hindu to me; nothing but Brahman will exist at the end and we all will be brought back to the central reality; devoid of our own individual natures, just bugs on God's face. Um, not the Christian message, nor the Jewish. Mohammed strays far afield from his fellow monotheists here.
Oh well. what do you expect from an amateur theologian warlord?
Whoops! Here's another.
"Those who reject the faith will suffer from that rejection: and those who work righteousness will make provision for themselves in Heaven: That He may reward those who believe and work righteous deeds, out of His Bounty. For He loves not those who reject Faith." Sura 30:44-45
Work, work, work! Gotta earn that heaven, baby. And that mmakes you better than those who don't. So brag! Damn it, you're better, and you deserve a slap on the back! Way to go, you superior human being, you.
Alright, alright. But that's not even the bullshit part.
So God loves ONLY those who accept Islam? That is not the Christian message -- nor the Jewish, if I understand them. God loves every man, woman and child. God is heartbroken when he is rejected. You have the ability to break the heart of God. Do you want to do that? (I think not.)
That's the drama of the Christian (Jewish) message. The Creator of the Universe is pining for you to give Him a nod and a wink, maybe more. The God who threw the stars into the sky (in the Big Bang, in my opinion), who raised Man from the dust (i.e., through evolution, in my opinion), aches for a word from you.
But no. The God of Islam doesn't love you unless you submit to Islam.
Those are way different messages.
Here's a picture of God loving someone even though they're not a Muslim:
posted by MontJoie @ 9:54 PM
2 Comments:
Um. Okay. Initially I was intrigued when I saw the title of your blog. Now I'm more than a little disturbed at the level of bigotry and hate that's going on here.
Not very Christian of you, now is it?
I get the feeling that I'm not going to be able to engage in a civil debate about the virtues of what in fact is a beautiful religion from someone who demeans it with such hatred.
"He loves not those who reject Faith". It didn't say Islam specifically, now did it? Islam preaches respect and tolerance for all of the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) and insists that they be treated with respect, for they received a Message from the same God.
Just because modern extremists have chosen to ignore this in the Qur'an does not make it invalid.
Sounds like you're a Christian, right?
So here's a little quote for you
"Judge not lest ye be judged".
And doesn't Chrisitianity preach 'love thy neighbor' and so on?
You don't know the first thing about Islam. Let me ask you does loving your neighbor mean leaving him in jail when you have the power to free him? Islam is a spiritual prison.
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