Grace Seeker,
Thank you sometimes I do get side tracked and think I have to defend my faith when it actually stands on its own. I need only tell them what and why I believe as I do. Whether they accept or reject it is a personal matter for them alone as it was for me.
So, from my limited understanding Islam isn't just a religion but also like Christianity a way of life. One difference is that Christianity is about a repairing a personal relationship with God in a familiar way ie father son relationship. The muslim relationship is more master slave oriented.
My question is if Islam using Sharia Law is supposed to be a perfected socio political way that governs people why is it that those countries that have embraced Islam and Sharia law have so much unrest and strife where suicide bombings seem to occur more often than in other countries? That would seem to imply that Sharia Law doesn't work as anything other than a tool of oppression? Why would I say oppression? Simle people usually don't rebel unless that has ocurred.
Peace be with you
Greetings Gmcbroom,
From your response it is clear that you do only have a very flawed understanding of Islam and i would have hoped that by being here you would have wanted to clarify your views on Islam that is if you are indeed here for the right reasons.
Regarding your comparison of Islam with Christianity then there is no comparison because Islam encompasses every aspect of our life from social to economic, From political to the judicial system whereas Christianity in itself has not got these systems in place.
Also in Islam we trace everything back to its sources where ALL of our fundamentals have basis with the words of God and the Prophet whereas the fundamentals of your faith regarding the trinity, the theotokas, the "cruci-fiction", and the blood atonement have ABSOLUTELY NO basis and NO mention in ANY of the teachings and the words of ANY Prophet, Jesus or God.
That is VERY strange that such fundamental beliefs are NOT found anywhere in the words of God or Jesus considering the fact that these beliefs make the foudnation of your faith and without them your faith crumbles. Without any evidence supporting it you rely on Paul and theologians after him who set these created beliefs in stone in the nicean council.
ANYONE studying the foundations of these flawed and created concepts will know that they have absolutley NO basis or proof from the words of God or Jesus.
For these reasons alone most of the converts to Islam in this world are actually Christians. Who can blame them or any other Christian who is not only disillusioned by the fact that these concepts are illogical, cruel, disturbing and troubling but that they are NOT mentioned in ANY teaching of ANY Prophet, God or Jesus.
Regaerding your statement about the shariah then know that the last shariah was eradicated in 1926 and since then there has not been a properly established shariah system so you are in fact making a judgement about either a democracy or dictatorship. If you want to judge the shariah system then judge it when it was properly established when even Christian and Jews wanted to live under a shariah because of its superiour systems and the protection it provided for all unlike in a democracy.
In Islam we live ONLY by the laws of God and not the manmade law of the churches which are constantly contradicting and changing all of the time going against the very teachings of Jesus himself. No wonder why countkless people are leaving the church because they are just fed up of the hypocrisy and contradiction as well as cover ups of child abuse. Even the pope was involved in these child abuse cover ups.
Therefore i ask anyone reading to look up the bloody history of Christianity and the origin of these created concepts and without a doubt you will see that they have NO basis or existance in the teachings of God or Jesus but were actually that of Paul and theologians after Jesus who set it in stone in the nicean council.
Look up for yourselves how far the church has gone astray from the true teachings of Christ and how people are abandoning the church in droves because of its consistant hypocrisy and contradictions as well as child abuse cover ups which even the Pope himself was involved in as well as most other top church priests and officials.
Look up Islam for yourselves and why so many people are turning to it. Simply because it is a superiour way of life and everything is consitant with the original sources. Don't take my word for it research for yourselves and know why so many are turning to the truth.
If the whole of mankind and Jinn were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support. And We have explained to man, in this Qur'an, every kind of similitude: Yet the greater part of men refuse ( to receive it ) except with ingratitude. (Isra 88-89)
