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Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks
I'm with you. I find Islam morally repugnant. Even more so than Christianity. At its core, Christianity preaches that to love God is to serve God. There's a bunch of other stuff two, but Jesus gave two commandments and, at least the second one, is an ethically admirable thing, if impossible (love thy neighbor as yourself). At its core is love, or at least, the Christian conception of that. They'd answer the question proposed by The Prince as love.
Islam, at its core, preaches obedience to the word of God/Allah. It's a religion built on submission to divinity, and through submission one finds peace (the concept of inshallah). They'd answer the question proposed by The Prince as fear.
I'm totally in agreement with most people here that Islam is, from a humanist perspective, the more objectionable faith. THANK GOD/ALLAH/SCIENCE that the overwhelming, truly gigantic, brobdingnagian (there's an SAT word for ya), majority of practitioners DON'T follow the words as written. They take the parts that work for them and skip or ignore the rest. LIKE EVERY OTHER BELIEF SYSTEM.
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I'd agree that Islam is probably worse than Christianity, but I don't know that it's worse than Judaism, which is pretty repulsive. It does gall me to admit that Christianity is probably the best Abrahamic religion, but Jesus really was a pretty okay guy as far as Biblical figures go. Too bad Christians have historically done their hardest to be just as disgusting as any other religious ****s. Kind of the point about religious extremism I suppose. No matter what the actual texts say, it will not really make any of the sociopathic adherents be any better or worse than the others. Sociopaths will sociopath.
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Hell, humanism has some objectionable elements. I was turned on to the writing of Michel Foucault a couple months ago when a similar topic was raised in my friend group - he put forth the notion that a universal definition of 'human' or 'human nature' or 'human morality' necessarily will exclude some elements of humanity and can therefore provide a justification for war, prejudice, etc. if certain groups don't comport with our established definitions.
It's sad that we don't extend the complexity of human experience much further than ourselves or our 'tribe'.
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I don't know much about humanism, but I doubt that any philosophy that becomes a philosophy that a significant amount of people practice will be immune from human douchebaggery. This is why I refuse to align with any ideology of any kind as much as possible. Even the best ideologies (religious or otherwise) are just screaming to be abused.