the attacks on the World Trade Center is due to the fact that the Western world has been turning increasingly in recent years the topic of Islam . What was traded before, "covered by tolerances claim" in debates only as a black box under the words, without caring more accurate for the contents of the black box was interested, is now relentlessly brought to light and with our present understanding of civilization, of human and liberties evaluated. contributes not least the Internet at, which is regarded by law as a non-free countries to natural enemies. If it provides us with many useless and many untruths, so can at least be the Unpleasant no longer be hidden. A silence is no longer possible to know what you want, you can find one. SA-like beatings special police squads in Iran which have not been averted, but they are filmed with mobile phone cameras, uploaded to YouTube and / or private websites and can not later be covered up by the government. This is worth a lot! Just as one can with Google Earth pick up any corner of the world, offering numerous blogs, forums, newsgroups, deepen Internet newspapers and private website the opportunity to topics in any desired detail. For nearly a decade
so we look at the content of Islam and especially its standard practice, his social reality more accurately than ever before. And what comes to light it is frightening for all minds that are accustomed to freedom as a natural asset. Muslims living in the West practice, which in their homeland popular customs and traditions here too:
forced marriage, female genital ,
honor killings are just the tip of the iceberg.
is suddenly forced to the west, and in everyday life address these practices. Fast food chains, school kitchens and confectionery manufacturers adhere to the 
halal dietary laws, so as not to arouse the discontent of the Muslim fellow citizens - and healthier lives anyway's halal! We learn terms like burqa, chador and hijab and discuss professional and "culturally sensitive" with (as required by the Commissioner for Integration Maria Böhmer). But however much we try, in the eyes of the Muslim world, in Muslim understanding of law as we are second class people dhimmis anyway, we remain immoral, decadent infidels and crusaders, our culture is doomed. If France's First Lady: a commitment to carry out the barbaric ritual of not stoning of the woman sentenced to death in Iran Ashtiani, they may be used by Iranian Muslims in the local (controlled of course, that the government approved or authorized) Press abused as a whore, deserves a similar decision would have as Ms Ashtiani. Islam differs from the other two great monotheistic religions through its all-encompassing secular claim. He sought - such as the ideologies of the last century - for global domination, the so-called "global caliphate". He wants to make its own laws and criminal terms, sharia law, binding on all. For Christians and Jews however, is the transformation of our world into a "theocracy" is not to make use of people, but with an eschatological character. The God who made everything, makes the end of time a new heaven and a new earth. This is a major difference to Islam, which calls on the faithful in the here and now by fighting use (where military force is not excluded in principle) to establish a religious state.
Now may the Koran are so many things. The Bible says a lot of kinky stuff, a lot of nonsense, a lot of cruel. We find in it many allegedly killing God-given commandments, including a large proportion of Steinigungsgeboten. The death penalty applies according to the Bible for Homosexuals (Lev 20.13), for witches (Ex 22.17), for adultery (Lev 20.10), for pre-marital sexual intercourse (Deut. 22.13-21) or marital intercourse during menstruation (Lev. 18.29), for rough pubescent adolescents (Deuteronomy 21.21) , as if they remain employed as a means of education against the beatings (Ps 34.11) were resistant. Apparently God considers women as inferior to men and are on them to submit to men (eg Lev 27.3-7, Gen. 3.16). If a man swear an oath, this is especially God. The oath of a woman applies, by contrast, if her husband - or, if she is not married: her father - the oath to be valid explained (Numbers 30). These bids should not Christians and Jews is unknown, because they are so in the Bible are "God's Word." Relevant to all these things but only as long as they are taken seriously by the faithful.
Jews and Christians believe in the majority no longer a "total inspiration" of Scripture: Do not believe the Bible to the people she wrote down, word for word from God was given in the spring. They do not believe in the divinity and truth of the whole Bible. They understand, for example, that represent large parts of the Bible is nothing but a penal code for a desert people in the first millennium BC, and therefore for us today, no have meaning, no longer applies. They are not divine, it was never, but are an addition of the priests who had also just social order tasks. The majority of Jews and Christians may concede, without having the feeling that their religion is thereby lost something. The essence of their faith is through these scriptures completely untouched. was
A Taizé -moving fellow me a long time ago, a definition of cults, which was already evident to me not at all "sects
look from the Bible out the parts that they like
." That seemed to me not a good criterion to be, nor even reprehensible. The whole Bible to believe word for word, because of the contradictions contained in it, and translation errors have a purely logical impossibility. No one who is sane, can this be sure, some inconsistencies can be explained with wit, subtlety and create an allegorical interpretation of the world, especially when it comes to lofty and highly intellectual topics. The mind will do us just at the elevated and highly intellectual topics like utilizing the help to reconcile contradictions argument, if we only see the Bible as a consistent
. Instead of conflicting theological doctrines assumed (for example: man is "not by works but by faith alone" fair (Rom 3.28), or is he just "by works, not by faith alone" (James 2:24)? ), One should therefore consider the very real, everyday, easily verifiable things - supporting facts, circumstances of the biblical accounts. Again, this may indeed, if the Bible was given word for word from God, do not contain contradictions. There are useful lists of such contradictions as dry, eg by Jim Merritt [1] A not contained therein, yet typical example. Jesus gave his disciples when sending the instruction to take a staff (Mark 6.8), or was he on them,
- take no
- can most one of the two biblical passages Lk Mk 6.8 and 9.3 originate from God! reason alone, Christians of all denominations have
- so no choice but to "pick out the parts that they like! No one can believe the Bible completely. Soberly considered the sect differs from the Catholic and Protestant churches only by a different choice and interpretation of the relevant Bible passages for them. Also comes with some sects have added a New Revelation, but this can be the biblical announcement the Holy Spirit, "which teach us everything" will (Jn 14.26), which Jesus said we still could not be legitimized. to believe the Bible word for word but means nothing other than your critical faculties at the cloakroom. This is no longer present. Jesus calls us almost to shut down not our reason, when it comes to religious tradition. This is evidenced by my opinion, the Sabbath pericope (Mk 2.23-28). Jesus and his disciples are reflected as prohibited on the Sabbath in a cornfield in order to do the ears amicably. Make us the Torah Lore Jesus to account, he responds with the notable Ausage: "Man is not for the Sabbath made, but the Sabbath for man. "Here is the Son of God to people is, obviously, the permission to think for themselves about traditional commandments, and to get power of reason to the right conclusions. And these conclusions may seem counterproductive to even the traditional law, as he .. by his actions as the generalization, one could also say: Is not the man for the law, but the law for humans created this biblical passage is not unique Similarly he behaves with the stoning of the adulteress - with the phrase, "Who. of you is without sin cast the first stone "(John 8.7), he saves her life. shall be taken back to us Call for your own opinion, which remains valid if it the traditional, God-given as runs counter deemed law!
- reason is the biggest whore, the devil [2]), he said in the Terminology of the philosophers of the mind, the rational argument. The mind is neutral - indifferent to the purposes for which it is used. Because of the complexity of the world often can not build as good of argument for thesis and antithesis. Similarly, a commercially available expert who ever rationally to clients that smoking is harmful or harmless, can be used for any purpose of the mind. In contrast to the neutral functional sense, reason is based on our higher values. Only in the light of reason we can correctly judge whether we are without sin and therefore may cast the first stone or not, whether the Sabbath to man or man for the Sabbath as is, etc. The appeal of Jesus to our own ruling power makes sense only if we make our opinion with reason. Otherwise he would have meant a mere laissez faire, a "follow your desires, drives and desires, as they rise up in you" - the mind can, as Luther remarked, underpin all of these needs and desires always argumentative. This reference to the reason, as opposed to blind faith, the question may not know, and taken to heart, Christianity was a long time, to show this, quoting Pope Benedict in his Regensburg speech, the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who in 1391 had this very same question a correspondence with a Persian scholar. Manuel's Position closed the blind faith, faith as submission of: "God has not to act is not pleased by blood, ... and in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature." [3]
rod (Lk 9.3)? Only one of two statements you can follow the same time! Logic says so: If God is truth (see, eg, Jo 14.6), his word is therefore particularly consistent,
philosophers like Plato distinguished from the mind (dianoia) or the brain-based thinking (phren) of reason (nous). The mind is the ability to think in itself. The ability to judge the other hand, is more into the realm of reason, through which thought is guided by higher universal values. The mind can be misused to legitimize self-serving or unlawful demands. If Luther of the "whore reason" language (
We now have no alternative to a selective reason-led reading of Sacred Scripture. We could possibly have to throw out - to accept them entirely is not possible all book religions - Islam, Judaism and Christianity - should instead " burdening the whole of Scripture "and thus her life and that of those around them unnecessarily to complicate, better ask, what is the essence
their faith. Only this essence, it is important to note - the rest is historical baggage. It is possible - I can not judge - that of Islam, when it is undergoing such a procedure and is prepared to the allegedly divine demands - the old camel driver laws, the demand for world domination and the slaughter of infidels - to throw overboard, nothing is left. Then it may be that we are experiencing at the moment only the last rearguard action, the death throes of Islam before he collapses like a house of cards. That at least is the ex-Muslim and Islam expert Mosab Hassan Youssef [4] convinced. This perspective is not impossible - we have similar experiences with other ideologies, once it became apparent that they have no substance. The blind belief in a literally God-given writing at any rate is now only possible with the disclosure of reason. [1] Jim Meritt: A List of Biblical Contradictions (1992). http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html # contradictions [2] Dr. Martin Luther's Works: Critical Edition. (Weimar: Herman Böhlaus successor, 1914), Band 51:126 [3] Letter from Manuel II Palaeologus, quoted from: belief Reason, University - Pope's speech, 12.9.2006 http://storico.radiovaticana.org/ted/storico/2006-09/94864_glaube in the auditorium of the University of Regensburg, , _vernunft, _universitat_-_papstrede_an_der_uni_regensburg.html [4] Mosab Hassan Youssef Islam is collapsing and will be gone in ten years, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQjk1YUq94
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