tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post334520343402809824..comments2024-03-28T12:34:14.649-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Christianity, Islam, and HermeneuticsVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-48265072918964519442017-07-08T14:32:57.838-07:002017-07-08T14:32:57.838-07:00Victor Reppert said...
" Still, the murde...Victor Reppert said...<br /><br />" Still, the murder rate in Islamic countries is well below world average."<br />--I visited an old Soviet block communist country a few (ok many) years back. One of our guides told me "we don't have a problem with terrorists, we shoot them". Under totalitarian regimes one gets things like that, and like this "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." Yes, dictatorships can control crime better than free societies because people do not have rights, the government can conduct surveillance, arrest, indefinite detention, and just get rid of criminals. <br /><br />No thanks.<br /><br /> July 07, 2017 4:50 PMStardustyPsychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12493629973262220492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-48473760144780493652017-07-07T21:16:15.811-07:002017-07-07T21:16:15.811-07:00Victor Reppert said...
"Ever hear of David W...Victor Reppert said...<br /><br />"Ever hear of David Wood? "<br />--I once wrote a short piece called<br />"Jesus is David's empathy insulin"<br /><br />To his credit, he published on his site:<br />http://www.acts17.net/2015/01/searching-for-atheist-refutation-of.html<br /><br /><br /> July 07, 2017 4:50 PMStardustyPsychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12493629973262220492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-79947362022548340512017-07-07T16:50:53.546-07:002017-07-07T16:50:53.546-07:00I do have lots of problems with the character of M...I do have lots of problems with the character of Muhammad, and there is some pretty raunchy stuff in the Hadith. Still, I am not sure that every well-informed Muslim scholar is just ignorant of these things. I think they just have hermeneutical moves to avoid the problems. Still, I'd rather defend Christianity that Islam, to be sure. <br /><br />Still, the murder rate in Islamic countries is well below world average. When you ask about the effect of religion on violence, everyone includes the killings done in the name of God, but no one subtracts the nonkillings by people who were deterred from killing someone because their religion said "Thou shalt not kill." True, we have social and legal motives for not killing, but these religions provide a religious motive that works on some people when the social and legal motives fail. Ever hear of David Wood? He hasn't tried to kill anyone since he has become a Christian, and he is a self-described psychopath. Victor Repperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-77142072299263402222017-07-07T15:15:51.260-07:002017-07-07T15:15:51.260-07:00"How you go from texts to application is a bi..."How you go from texts to application is a big issue"<br />--For those who are motivated by an innate sense of altruism and empathy the big issue is how to devise a rationalization that somehow discards the vast amount of textual debauchery and manages to somehow turn a sow's ear into a illusory silk purse.<br /><br />For example, it is often said that Islam teaches no compulsion in religion. Yet the punishment for apostasy is death! The passage about no compulsion comes from early texts written when Muhammad led just a small and relatively weak band of followers, in the Meccan period. <br /><br />Later verses from the Quran and actions documented in the Hadith call for death to apostates, and fighting the unbelievers until they convert or pay extortion and live a life of subjugation.<br /><br />The big issue is how to hide the truth of what Muhammad actually did and what he actually recited in his later years.<br /><br />Those who hide the truth about Muhammad are relatively peaceful, those who learn the truth about Muhammad support Islamic jihad or leave Islam, those who live the truth about Muhammad join the IS or otherwise engage in violence in the name of their god.<br /><br />StardustyPsychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12493629973262220492noreply@blogger.com