Sunday, November 04, 2007
Honey, Jesus Hisself Woulda Cried.
I do not appreciate ignorance.
May it be said that I do not appreciate ignorance, which means that I dislike people who make arguments and try to talk through their asshats about things they have not studied, things they do not understand, and things they have not examined from both sides.
I especially hate when people use misconceptions as evidence, without first REALIZING that they are misconceptions. People who listen to gossip and the media and will not accept that there could be a different view point because "the media said so".
Even more than this, I despise people who stand on a moral high ground while doing this.
I will not mention names, but recently, I heard a conversation regarding Islam. Anyone who has spoken to me knows that, having studied both Christianity and Islam, I have certain views that will not be shaken, certain views like, oh say, All Muslims Aren't Terrorists, or Islam Is Not A Religion of Violence, or Muslims Are Just As Creative And Free To Think As Adherents From Any Other Religion.
What really angered me about this conversation was that the people involved were using evidence they gleaned from media, misconceptions, and a LITTLE bit of information that they THINK they know from the Qur'an, and using it to lambast the religion.
And HYEEERES the kicker! They were doing so to compare it to the Love and Compassion and Tolerance of Jesus Christ.
Christ Jesus, if you're listening to this, I wonder if YOU'RE proud. I wonder if YOU approve of this. If YOU approve of people who, in your name, put down a religion without knowing ANYTHING about it other than that a SELECT MINORITY group are terrorists and a SELECT MINORITY GROUP beat their wives.
Jesus, my Lord, I wonder if YOU, at least, remember the Crusades. And the Spanish Inquisition. And if you remember the ridiculously high divorce and abuse rates in primarily Anglo-Christian countries like the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.
I wonder if YOU really think it's so much worse to marry four women at the same time, IF you can treat them all equally and IF your intentions were pure. Whether or not they were, depends on the individual. But provided that they can justify it to themselves and their god, who the bloody hell is ANYONE to judge them?!
In short, Jesus.....I wonder how you, the religion you founded and the public FACE of that religion would turn out if people only practiced what they claimed to stand for. If, while extolling virtues of peace and compassion and tolerance, they actually LOVED. They actually TOLERATED. They actually bothered to LEARN about things before ridiculing or mocking them.
Abu Hamid bin Mohammad Al-Ghazali once said, "An ignorant Muslim is more dangerous than a non-believer".
Christian dumbasses, hillbillies, religious fanatics, uninformed morons and country bumpkins, take heed, for ALTHOUGH IT WAS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THEM TERRO-RISST MOOZLIMS, it has IMMENSE merit.
Idiots.
May it be said that I do not appreciate ignorance, which means that I dislike people who make arguments and try to talk through their asshats about things they have not studied, things they do not understand, and things they have not examined from both sides.
I especially hate when people use misconceptions as evidence, without first REALIZING that they are misconceptions. People who listen to gossip and the media and will not accept that there could be a different view point because "the media said so".
Even more than this, I despise people who stand on a moral high ground while doing this.
I will not mention names, but recently, I heard a conversation regarding Islam. Anyone who has spoken to me knows that, having studied both Christianity and Islam, I have certain views that will not be shaken, certain views like, oh say, All Muslims Aren't Terrorists, or Islam Is Not A Religion of Violence, or Muslims Are Just As Creative And Free To Think As Adherents From Any Other Religion.
What really angered me about this conversation was that the people involved were using evidence they gleaned from media, misconceptions, and a LITTLE bit of information that they THINK they know from the Qur'an, and using it to lambast the religion.
And HYEEERES the kicker! They were doing so to compare it to the Love and Compassion and Tolerance of Jesus Christ.
Christ Jesus, if you're listening to this, I wonder if YOU'RE proud. I wonder if YOU approve of this. If YOU approve of people who, in your name, put down a religion without knowing ANYTHING about it other than that a SELECT MINORITY group are terrorists and a SELECT MINORITY GROUP beat their wives.
Jesus, my Lord, I wonder if YOU, at least, remember the Crusades. And the Spanish Inquisition. And if you remember the ridiculously high divorce and abuse rates in primarily Anglo-Christian countries like the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.
I wonder if YOU really think it's so much worse to marry four women at the same time, IF you can treat them all equally and IF your intentions were pure. Whether or not they were, depends on the individual. But provided that they can justify it to themselves and their god, who the bloody hell is ANYONE to judge them?!
In short, Jesus.....I wonder how you, the religion you founded and the public FACE of that religion would turn out if people only practiced what they claimed to stand for. If, while extolling virtues of peace and compassion and tolerance, they actually LOVED. They actually TOLERATED. They actually bothered to LEARN about things before ridiculing or mocking them.
Abu Hamid bin Mohammad Al-Ghazali once said, "An ignorant Muslim is more dangerous than a non-believer".
Christian dumbasses, hillbillies, religious fanatics, uninformed morons and country bumpkins, take heed, for ALTHOUGH IT WAS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THEM TERRO-RISST MOOZLIMS, it has IMMENSE merit.
Idiots.
Queen Sana at 7:04 PM
