Islam is not bad, too many of you are ignorant of history.

[Mr Khan]

Booh! said:

Mr Khan said:

I'll tell you that Commandment 5, as far as "murder" was probably meant specifically regarding killing other Jews. Most of the commandments are taken so far out of context these days as to have little to do with their original meaning. "Honor thy father and thy mother," for instance, is a commandment directed at the guy who doesn't want to pay his mom's nursing home bills (or the era's equivalent), and not the kid who doesn't want to go to bed on time, as is the modern, out-of-context interpretation

And we can see in our modern days the people that take this stuff to be seriously directed at them in their context, like the people who literally interpret the Levitical prohibitions against homosexuality, which were more about keeping domestic peace than because God hates it (i.e. adult men who would have sex with each other were likely married, thus creating all kinds of interfamilial fun), and can see how contextual issues of intra-Arabian conflict could, just perhaps, be taken to justify blowing up skyscrapers in a country that didn't even exist at the time?

I can't get why, when we are talking about Christianity, we talk about the Old Testament. It's just propaedeutic for Christians, it's not mandatory since it's superseded by the New Testament. At least the catholic catechism states clearly that the OT regards the old covenant and the Jews and that it must be interpreted in its context. In the OT there are a lot of teachings that were trashed already by the early christians (and Jesus himself btw): Jews were polygamist while Christians are not, Jews couldn't make pictures of their God while Christians always could, Jews couldn't eat a lot of stuff (pretty much like Muslims) while Christians always ate everything (but on Friday) and so on and on and on.

Yet the Old Testament is cited erroneously by fundamentalist Christians for various things (starting with the Creation Story as an absolute truth). The point being that fundamentalists refuse to take historical context into account and screw up things for everyone else, much like the Mullahs ordering death on this that and the other thing