Why I am not a Muslim

by stillajwexelder 26 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  stillajwexelder

  Just finished reading "Why I am not a Muslim" - fabulous read. I recommend it
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  ButtLight

  So..........why arent you?
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  Zico

  Who wrote it?
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  Inquisitor

  Ibn Warraq, I think. Unless we're talking about a different book.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Muslim

  Here's a review of the book by al-Rawandi:

  http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/ibn_al-rawandi/review.html

  INQ
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  greendawn

  Having met and argued with many Moslems I know what they stand for. Their koran is a very contradictory book that can justify anything, at times it advises war and at times peace so some Moslems say it is a religion of peace and others see it as proposing war depending on what verses they quote.

  Christianity on the other hand is straight in that it demands a peaceful behaviour from its followers. Islam established itself through war and forced conversions at the point of the sword or sustained persecution, Christianity through suffering persesution. There is no doubt about which one is more spiritual.
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  zeroday

  So..........why arent you?

  Yea, why not. Islam means Peace. Who wouldn't want to join a religion of Peace.
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  ringo5

  Having met and argued with many Moslems I know what they stand for. Their koran is a very contradictory book that can justify anything, at times it advises war and at times peace so some Moslems say it is a religion of peace and others see it as proposing war depending on what verses they quote. Christianity on the other hand is straight in that it demands a peaceful behaviour from its followers. Islam established itself through war and forced conversions at the point of the sword or sustained persecution, Christianity through suffering persesution. There is no doubt about which one is more spiritual.

  
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  Pahpa

  Last night, ABC presented America at the Crossroad. I thought it clearly illustrated how Islam was militant and aggressive from its origins. Mohammed was a military leader as well as a religious leader. He had no compunction about using force to convert his opposers.

  In contrast, Jesus taught a message of peace. He condemned the use of force. (Example: He told Peter that "those who lived by the sword would die by the sword.") He told us to "love our enemies." True, many professed Christians failed to obey Jesus' commands down through history. But by crossing over that line of faith, they demonstrated that they were not following Christ.

  I really think it is quite easy for Muslims to find justification for their terrorist acts in the Quaran. The opposite message is found in the words of Jesus.
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  greendawn

  Ringo, you have some other ideas about the early history of Christianity? I meant it was established through passive resistance to persecution unlike the Islam. What irregularities happened later in history is another story and as Pahpa mentioned it was contrary to the gospel.
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  ringo5

  Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

  10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

  10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

  You can pretend that Jesus is only recorded as preaching a message of peace, but that is avoiding his solution to arriving at that utopia, sending all who ignore him to hell, after getting wiped out by Jehober first.

  My apologies for these slightly off topic posts....

  Don't know how my formatting got messed up....