Hey my Landover friends!
So recently I've decided to branch out from the restraints of western culture and have been studying up on Islam.
Now don't get me wrong, there's a lot about Islam that frightens me. But I believe all the terrorists and stonings and whatnot are the work of men who are misinterpreting the true message.
See, I have always had a problem with the Bible. I don't understand the Trinity. How can one God be three persons? It doesn't add up? And I find it hard to believe that Jesus was really the Son of God. I've read the Gospels, and Jesus says a lot of great things, but also some weird things that I think prove he was really just a great moral teacher and not the God I know.
Also, I don't understand why God had to kill Jesus in order to forgive our sins? The God I know is all-loving and all-forgiving. He doesn't need a human sacrifice to appease Him, does He?
Well, luckily Islam conveniently gets rid of all this! Not to mention, the prophets of the Old Testament all come off a LOT nicer in the Quran than in the Bible!
-Noah didn't get drunk and curse one of his sons to slavery.
-Abraham was actually Hagar's husband, he didn't own her as a sex slave.
-Lot didn't get drunk and impregnate his daughters.
-Jacob didn't trick his brother out of his inheritence.
-Job never doubted God.
-David didn't commit adultery and murder.
-Solomon could talk to animals.
Also, look at some of the beautiful passages in the Quran!
2:42 Confound not truth with falsehood, nor knowingly conceal the truth.
2:83 And (remember) when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, (saying): Worship none save Allah (only), and be good to parents and to kindred and to orphans and the needy, and speak kindly to mankind; and establish worship and pay the poor-due. Then, after that, ye slid back, save a few of you, being averse.
2:220 Upon the world and the Hereafter. And they question thee concerning orphans. Say: To improve their lot is best. And if ye mingle your affairs with theirs, then (they are) your brothers. Allah knoweth him who spoileth from him who improveth. Had Allah willed He could have overburdened you. Allah is Mighty, Wise.
4:2 Give unto orphans their wealth. Exchange not the good for the bad (in your management thereof) nor absorb their wealth into your own wealth. Lo! that would be a great sin.
9:71 And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise.
17:53 Tell My bondmen to speak that which is kindlier. Lo! the devil soweth discord among them. Lo! the devil is for man an open foe.
46:15 And We have commended unto man kindness toward parents. His mother beareth him with reluctance, and bringeth him forth with reluctance, and the bearing of him and the weaning of him is thirty months, till, when he attaineth full strength and reacheth forty years, he saith: My Lord! Arouse me that I may give thanks for the favour wherewith Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and that I may do right acceptable unto Thee. And be gracious unto me in the matter of my seed. Lo! I have turned unto Thee repentant, and lo! I am of those who surrender (unto Thee).
So recently I've decided to branch out from the restraints of western culture and have been studying up on Islam.
Now don't get me wrong, there's a lot about Islam that frightens me. But I believe all the terrorists and stonings and whatnot are the work of men who are misinterpreting the true message.
See, I have always had a problem with the Bible. I don't understand the Trinity. How can one God be three persons? It doesn't add up? And I find it hard to believe that Jesus was really the Son of God. I've read the Gospels, and Jesus says a lot of great things, but also some weird things that I think prove he was really just a great moral teacher and not the God I know.
Also, I don't understand why God had to kill Jesus in order to forgive our sins? The God I know is all-loving and all-forgiving. He doesn't need a human sacrifice to appease Him, does He?
Well, luckily Islam conveniently gets rid of all this! Not to mention, the prophets of the Old Testament all come off a LOT nicer in the Quran than in the Bible!
-Noah didn't get drunk and curse one of his sons to slavery.
-Abraham was actually Hagar's husband, he didn't own her as a sex slave.
-Lot didn't get drunk and impregnate his daughters.
-Jacob didn't trick his brother out of his inheritence.
-Job never doubted God.
-David didn't commit adultery and murder.
-Solomon could talk to animals.
Also, look at some of the beautiful passages in the Quran!
2:42 Confound not truth with falsehood, nor knowingly conceal the truth.
2:83 And (remember) when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, (saying): Worship none save Allah (only), and be good to parents and to kindred and to orphans and the needy, and speak kindly to mankind; and establish worship and pay the poor-due. Then, after that, ye slid back, save a few of you, being averse.
2:220 Upon the world and the Hereafter. And they question thee concerning orphans. Say: To improve their lot is best. And if ye mingle your affairs with theirs, then (they are) your brothers. Allah knoweth him who spoileth from him who improveth. Had Allah willed He could have overburdened you. Allah is Mighty, Wise.
4:2 Give unto orphans their wealth. Exchange not the good for the bad (in your management thereof) nor absorb their wealth into your own wealth. Lo! that would be a great sin.
9:71 And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise.
17:53 Tell My bondmen to speak that which is kindlier. Lo! the devil soweth discord among them. Lo! the devil is for man an open foe.
46:15 And We have commended unto man kindness toward parents. His mother beareth him with reluctance, and bringeth him forth with reluctance, and the bearing of him and the weaning of him is thirty months, till, when he attaineth full strength and reacheth forty years, he saith: My Lord! Arouse me that I may give thanks for the favour wherewith Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and that I may do right acceptable unto Thee. And be gracious unto me in the matter of my seed. Lo! I have turned unto Thee repentant, and lo! I am of those who surrender (unto Thee).
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