Rath said:
richardhutnik said:
Rath said:
I hate Sharia law. At least in its literal interpretation.
I'm glad that the Christians and Jews have by and large decided to ignore the more extreme statements in their holy books. |
It would be interesting if more Christians actually engaged in turning the other cheek, loving their enemies,a nd so on. Those extreme statements are in the holy book.
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By extreme I meant the negative ones. To be fair the new testament doesn't have many but the old testament (which is closely related to the Torah) is full of things that would really be rather bad if implemented in real life. Mostly Leviticus and Deuteronomy, which contain some rather nasty things.
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Extreme is extreme, whether good or bad. The initial comment is right about people ignoring the more extreme view of their religion. That is human nature. Usually most people go to religion to see what they get out of it. It is the radicals who give their life for it, and that can be good or bad. For Christians, to really be extreme, would end up producing saints. Christians being ones who see the entire Bible through the New Testament texts, and its perspective. What usually happens though is that marginal individuals get merged with political powers, and bring out the worst and most dark aspects of a religion.
