Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:46 pm
Do you somewhat detest or do not like the islam religion? If yes, then why so?
I am not a Buddhist per se but have personally adopted one of the Boddhisattva's vow to extend empathy and compassion to human beings.
I believe ALL evil acts and intentions of humans must be addressed and resolved where possible.
But I don't have the competence nor resources to deal with ALL evil acts.
But since I am very familiar with philosophy and religion, I believe I can contribute the evil acts related to religions.
Now it is so obvious from the News and even direct experience, one can note the association between the many reports of terrible acts by SOME Muslims and Islam.
To avoid hasty generalization, I took the trouble to research extensively to understand the actual root causes.
I noted the proximate root cause is the evil elements in the ideology of Islam which compelled SOME Muslims who are evil prone to commit terrible evil acts as a divine duty to please their Allah to gain favorable salvation.
Obviously those who committed the evil acts must be accountable for their actions in some ways but to prevent such evil acts at source we must trace to the proximate cause, which I have identified as from the evil elements in the Quran.
As a matter of theoretical test [not possible in practice at present]; if we remove the Quran, there will be no more Muslims and thus no more Quranic inspired evil acts and violence.
Those ex-Muslims who were evil prone will continue to commit evil but they will not be able to quote from the Quran to justify their evil deeds.
This OP is to demonstrate I do not hate Muslims even those who commit the terrible evil acts and violence where they are inspired by the evil elements in the Quran and act out of desperation for their salvation.
The point is this;
DNA wise the majority of human beings are desperate for salvation.
If they seek salvation via Jesus Christ there is an overriding pacifist maxim that they cannot kill, and that extend to even one's enemies.
One could seek 'salvation' via Buddhism or Jainism and these religions do not have any leading evil laden verses in their official holy texts that compel or inspire one to kill in the name of Buddha or Buddhism.
But it is very unfortunate for a Muslim whose first desperation is to seek salvation but has to enter into a covenant [spiritual contract] that include terms where a true Muslims has to commit the evil commands therein.
Those Muslims who are naturally evil prone will not hesitate to carry out the 'evil' commands from God as a divine duty to please God to facilitate their own personal salvation.
Even the very goody-two-shoes will be induced and 'forced' to commit terrible evil acts. This is very common where we read of some supposedly well behaved Muslims turned out to be suicide bombers out of the blue and surprised their parents, relatives, friends, etc.
Whatever answer you give I will always bring you back to the point that the ideology behind a word that is related to peace is peace. If a human being, however, construes or wants to construe a word, or the ideology behind that word, in a different way, then so be it. There is nothing I can do about that.
We are talking of Islam.
What prevailed in Islam is the immutable words of God in the Quran.
If the Quran did not assert Islam meant exclusively peace, then you cannot usurp the authority of Allah especially if you are Muslim.
There is something that you need to do, i.e. you need to be intellectually honest and responsible in going along with what the book actually intended the term 'Islam' to be in the context of the whole Quran.
You condemned my reference to Wiki.
Note reference to Wiki is normally the quickie reference but it understand one has to trace the meaning to the Quran.
I did not jump at it but I know the explanation the term "Islam" in Wiki represent that of the Quran.
Btw, you post is a bit messy.
Let me know if I had missed any point that is critical to you.
