Why do people reject islam?
By oozie1
@oozie1 (6)
August 7, 2008 8:57am CST
How can a illeterate man discover stuff like the origin of the universe and the shrinking of the earth and the process of human embroyology and many more stuff, now on top of that this man lived 1400 years ago so it must be gods word.So why do people reject him?there is 1.8 Bil muslims in the world but it is the fastest growing religion.
2 responses
@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
7 Aug 08
In the first place, many people are not born into Islam. And adults generally don't convert that easily. Conversion is not that easy. It requires an uprooting of old belief systems and conditioning and the incorporating of new beliefs. It is something like surgery. So much for conversions.
Now about the truth of the Koran. All religious texts are written by human beings. So, they cannot be perfect. The Koran, like all other religious texts, has its own problems. And there are many errors and contradictions in it.
Visit this site and have a look at these contradictions:
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/koran.html
It is very difficult for any serious, thinking, intelligent adult to accept any faith or religion because you won't find a single perfect religion on earth. In religions were good, the world wouldn't have been in the condition it is in right now.
Cheers and happy mylotting
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@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
18 Aug 08
[i][b]Its writer, Jesus Christ, in the person of the Holy Spirit, is still alive today.
I disagree. The Bible is perfect, because although it was written by men, it was God inspiring them to write.[/b]
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My friend angus, you must be clear and stop contradicting yourself. First you say that the Bible is written by Jesus Christ, which is not true.
Then you say it is written by MEN, inspired by God, who is not Jesus, but Jesus's father.
First you say, Jesus is the person of the Holy Spirit. The nuns told me that God is one, but THREE different aspects, and the Holy Spirit is the third person. He can't be Jesus. How could Jesus descend on Jesus's own head when he was being baptized by John the Baptist?
Cheers and take care with these words. ;)
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@angusthethird (515)
• United States
15 Aug 08
I disagree. The Bible is perfect, because although it was written by men, it was God inspiring them to write.
Either a perfect God can inspire an imperfect human being to write a perfect work, or He is not God.
@tarachand (3895)
• India
7 Aug 08
I respect all religions, but am skeptical about interpretations by people, by the leaders of each religion.
Here are some of the reasons that could be the reason for rejection of most religions, and especially the most modern ones - Christianity and Islam, which have yet to reach a level of maturity that some of the ancient religions such as Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mayan have. But then religions also suffer from too many lacuna.
I think one of the biggest hinderances that stands in the way of a favorable opinion about Islam is misinterpretation by many leaders who consider lives of others as immaterial - taking lives of others as a way to heaven and heavenly pleasures.
In today's modern world, a religion must treat both sees equally, a woman is not the property of her father or her husband, she is human and has same rights as the man.
Also an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind, if this dictum is practiced honestly and diligently.
As far as scientific explanations are concerned, well old Hindu and Asian texts speak of atoms and predicted accurately eclipses, explained many other things that were only recently discovered by the Occident, the west, will you then consider the writer/s of these words as speaking God's word, or will you consider such religions as Khaffir?
I think the creator whom we called God would treat all creatures as equal, irrespective of those creatures religious beliefs.
No offense intended.
I am not a Jew, not a Christian, not a Muslim, not a Buddhist, not a Sikh, I am just a human being like all the others that currently share this planet with me.
@tarachand (3895)
• India
15 Aug 08
Literacy is unimportant, in the long run, it is the human's experiences and behavior in life that matters. As far as beauty in prose is concerned, most of the Hindu texts contain some of the longest and the best composed verses amongst any religion These texts contain as many errors as any religious text in the world including the Koran does.
On a short term with a a narrow vision-how has a particular matter benefited the human race? I think religions and religious causes are the greatest disrupters and destroyers of life. A few years (100's to millions), if the human race evolves and survives, history will not have very nice things to say about these times and about religions in particular.
I think religion is something that is not really worth discussing or debating about - every religion is the best for its practitioner/s and is a very private and personal matter. No force or coercion should be used on any person to follow a particular way of life.
No religion asks someone to shed blood for it, for every life is precious, be it human or other creatures that share this creation with us, so I think it is foolish for people to differentiate themselves on the basis of man created concepts such as religion or nations borders.
We are born as creatures on a small planet which exists in one corner of a galaxy that is probably one among the many billions, trillions, and on a cosmic scale the human race is too small to be probably considered as anything except a failed intelligence that may ultimately destroy itself over disputes on small matters such as following a particular line of theology or metaphysics - that is religion.
