Mind Changed!

[Whickerman]

I've just been on one of my fave sites, and there's a movie clip. The posting raves on about the evils of religion. I'm afraid I watched it, and i've actually had my mind changed about something, and had one of my core beliefs reinforced.

I won't post the link to the video, as it's very very disturbing. It shows a girl being dragged from a house and stoned to death. She was 14. The crowd are loving it.

Therefore, I can say that my belief that any form of fundamentalism is surely wrong, and ungod-like. That's the one that's been reinforced. I actually hate to say this, but after all of the bombings, after all of the killings, its taken this for me to admit that Islam can't be right.

I'm logging off now. I really feel depressed.

[naomi24]

Mani, Do you think the answer lies within the Islamic community itself? If they, like you, feel that Islam is misunderstood, perhaps their leaders should speak out publicly against such practices as stoning, honour killings, and fundamentalists calling for the slaughter and beheading of the infidel. Perhaps if moderate Islam made an effort to assert its influence on others, or at least try to educate them, practices like this would eventually be deemed by all to be barbaric and unacceptable.

[wizard69]

thanks for answering Mani, but im still perplexed. You take adam and eve and Noah's flood to be symbolic but by what criterion? why not take the resurection story the same way? how do you decide what is symbolic and what is factual history?
when it comes to biblical laws by what criterion do you decide that its wrong to be homosexual and yet consider the punishment for this (stoning) to be barbaric and inhumane?

[naomi24]

Mani, but non-Muslims are under attack constantly - and every time a bomber strikes, it's not just the infidel that is dying - it's people of all creeds, including Muslims. Surely if the moderate Muslims, who you say are in the majority, had the courage to openly join forces with us, we'd have a better chance of stopping this madness and of changing the world for the better? Can't they see that?

[wizard69]

Mani, you gonna answer my post as well?

[wizard69]

guess not...

[naomi24]

Seems you're right.