polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 11
th, 2017 at 12:53pm:
Fuzzball wrote on Apr 11
th, 2017 at 12:26pm:
If muslims want it - why not?
These last couple of weeks I have learned a great deal about the power of self delusion. By somehow arguing that 1 Corinthians 10 is not really about compelling women to wear the veil, and to assert their inferior and subservient status to men, FD has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to not only defy what is so clearly written in front of him, but to also reject every single scholarly translation of it.
While it makes me flabbergasted on the one hand, it should also be admired that such amazing feats of mental gymnastics can be achieved.
What needs to be acknowledged here is that christianity - at least in the western world - has become quite progressive on matters related to women and equal rights. Yet here we see in Paul's letters (not just 1 Corinthians 10, there are several others), clear commands to subjugate women and make them subservient to men. FD is not even a christian, yet nonetheless throws himself head first into bible apologism. One can only imagine the sheer will power required of an actual Christian to explain away all the misogyny in their holy book. But power to them I say. Good for them for wanting to bring their scriptures into the 21st century.
As for Islam, I can assure you it is far easier to rationalise the Quran into something that is compatible with Women's rights than it is the bible. So theologically, there really shouldn't be a problem doing it. If it can be done in christianity, it can certainly be done in Islam.
Bollocks.
The Koran is the "final, unalterable and eternal word of Allah". The Bible is a collection of inspired texts. Nobody claims it to be the final and unalterable word on anything. This makes modernisation, interpretation, reform easy and this is why Christianity is under constant review - something feared and loathed by Muslims because they know that if Christianity has diminished because of modernisation, Islam will disappear in a puff if anything even remotely similar is attempted with the Koran. At least Christianity has love at its core and you can't gainsay that. The texts of Islam have seething rancour and subjugation as their core, covered up by empty and silly incantations of a merciful go who is, in the next breath, declared unfathomable, unknowable, supra-rational, inaccessible.
The whole 'Allah's eternal, unalterable word' hooey has to be thrown overboard. And if that happens and the Koran is subject to intelligent review, it will all be chucked as well as it doesn't stand up to even cursory criticism.
That's why the bearded hordes in pajamas riot and kill at the slightest suggestion of review. This is where Mohamemd painted you numpties into a corner you cannot escape except by apostasy. The old pryapic monsters has rogered all you Muslims, good and proper, across the centuries.
Then how, pray tell, do the Imams and Muslims described in the article reconcile women's right's with their faith?