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2008-11-18 Olde Tyme Religion

Kissing minor sin, Egyptian religious scholar says

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The 254-page book, entitled The Issue of Kisses and Other Interpretations

The mind boogles. Really, most of what I've read about islma, and the little I understood from it, leads me to think this is not a religion, meaning there's no transcendence, no faith per se... but it's rather a LAW, a set of rules aiming at controlling the very least of human behavior (with a marked insistance on mictions, bodily fluids, bodily functions), and all of this is absolutely involutive, spiralling down into an ever more encompassing and absurd set of LAW... until there is nothing more left of the thinking, human mind. Truly satanic.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-18 05:18|| 2008-11-18 05:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Truly satanic
I would hazard a guess that satanism is MORE transcendent than Islam. If there is such a thing a satanism in the first place.

Islam is theologically/confessionally incoherent, IMO.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2008-11-18 05:47|| 2008-11-18 05:47|| Front Page Top

#3 You are right anon5089.

Let's take a look at the five pillars of Islam.

1) Shativah: Proclam that Muhammad was the nicest, smartest and prettiest.

2) Prayer: Five times a day proclaim that Muhammad was the nicest, smartest and prettiest

3) Ramadan: Fast for the sake of it. BTW, even in South of Finland there is ever enough daylight to read during teh summer. And too much for a Mulim being allowed to eat and drink if Ramadan is in summer.

4) Hadj: Fill the pockets of the master race (and in his times, of the master tribe) even if you are a Bangladeshi.

5) Zakat: That is the only one who could e deemed as "positive" but notice that charity is limited. Give 3% of your money to the poor, if you can afford it.

And then there is what some Muslim scholars call the Sixth Pillar, the unofficial one: Jihad. Make war on ten infidels so the rich can get new sex toys and the master race can get more money through the Hadj.

Notice that between those five pillars there is nothing like "Thou shalt not kill" or "Thou sall not lift false testimony". Nothing, except for the quite limited precept of Zakat contributing to a better world. And no "difficult" precept like the Christian precept of putting the other cheek when you are slapped.

While we are at it, notice that official (that is saducean judaism) was more about rites than moral. The moral dimension was not in the Bible in the oral tradition that sadduceans rejected (in fact they rejected everything in the Bible buit the first five books) but that the pharisian movement (later to become rabiinc judaism) vindicated.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-18 06:04|| 2008-11-18 06:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Kissing haram. Rape halal. What a ~~racket~~ religion!

Posted by ed 2008-11-18 06:34|| 2008-11-18 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 kissing your goat is a little sick. I have to concur with the wise man

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-18 08:00|| 2008-11-18 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 It all depends on where you kiss your goat, really, there's a fatwa about that.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-18 13:31|| 2008-11-18 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't mess with goats, or monkeys, either. That is my fatwa. Ima not jokin'.

Posted by Al Aska Paul, Resident Imam 2008-11-18 21:08|| 2008-11-18 21:08|| Front Page Top

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