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PeonForHer -> RE: Worldwide people are concerned over 'too many immigrants' who change their country 'in ways they don (8/25/2016 4:02:40 AM)
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Don't presume to speak for Christianity when it's patently clear you know fuck all about it. The passages you speak of have nothing to do with Christianity.
But I was brought up as a Christian. I went to Church as a kid and even attended a church school as a young kid. If *I* don't know what Christianity is, then presumably there are many Christians who don't know what Christianity is, either. I'd hazard a guess, in fact, that it's most people who call themselves Christian.
If that's the case, might it not be the same for Islam? Where are the rules that Christians are to follow? My understanding is that Christianity is based on the New Testament, with the Old Testament 'informing it in some way'. Different bits seem to be added to the mixture according to time and place. Why is it that people follow different 'Christian rules' across the world and have followed vastly different 'Christian rules' at different times in the past?
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No, Islam agrees upon the Quran. What they don't agree on is which particular collection of hadith is legitimate. They've been murdering each other for a thousand years over a political disagreement which they've convinced themselves is a religious one.
Islam must agree upon the Koran for it to be Islam, obviously. As for the rest: I agree - the religion is suffused with politics. Religion nearly always *is* suffused with politics. However, millions have *not* been murdering each other. There's clearly a way of being Muslim in a peaceable way. All but a tiny few Muslims living in western, mainly Christian, countries, manage it, for instance. This is what most people in countries such as my own would be most concerned about.
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