seignet posted:The Koran can never be revised. That would subject the contents as the absolute truths. The people who promote this religion are the people of the ME. The others are followers of their interpretations.
The other day I saw a video of a few muslims who want to reclaim their religion. I did not see any immans or Middle-Easterners in the group. Most Indo looking people.
No one wants to convert muslims or want to prove their beliefs are medieval. They put themselves into the frame. And beligerent about it.
I said revised the relevance for us for certain passages as Christians have done with odious phrases in the bible. We do not condone slavery, stoning for adultery, sex with under aged children, genocide etc. These are barbaric from where we stand. These are in the bible and treated as incidental to god's directive.
The idea of defending passages as not meaning as stated or taking phrasing and implying other context than is clear are all silly excuses for harmonizing antiquated behavior with modern outlook to life. We must come to accept religious plurality. Christianity does not accept it but Christians live in secular political spaces. The horrible killings all through the christian era to only the middle of the last century were all circumscribed with creating hierarchic societies with some humans being deemed better than others. Those beliefs were injurious to life. They are all biblical but they are not part of normative social experience in the world today.