I fucking love vim.
im assuming youve read the translation of Quran, and not the Quran in Arabic. huge difference my friend, huge difference.
What kind of God can’t make his message translatable? If it’s only accessible in one language, then it can’t be relevant for anybody who doesn’t understand that language. Ergo, it’s not meant for all of humanity.
in-the-midst-of-winter asked: Peace be upon you. :) Hey, I hope you don't mind, or think I'm intruding, but I was wondering why you don't believe the Qur'an to be Revealed?
Peace be upon you as well!
In short, I read the Quran, and saw no reason to believe it was revealed. It spends so much time threatening non-believers with eternal torture in Hell that I cannot imagine that it comes from a loving god. The god of the Quran basically says, “The ultimate crime is believing there’s any god other than Me. If you believe such a thing, you will be very sorry on Judgment Day, but HAHA it will be too late! You won’t get a second chance, I’m going to torture you for ever and ever, no matter how much you beg for mercy, even though in this book I keep calling myself ‘the merciful!’” It’s a hypocritical text. Its morality is sub-par (surah Kahf encourages Muslims to hate non-Muslims). It makes God look like a petty, shallow, sadistically cruel tyrant looking for the slightest excuse to condemn people to eternal suffering.
Also, why would I believe any text is revealed? Language is a human invention, and it’s faulty and prone to misunderstandings, confusion, ambiguity. For a text to be revealed by/from God requires an extreme set of criteria, and not only does the Quran not meet those criteria (see my previous paragraph) but no text in a human language can meet those criteria.
does anyone else have this other self they’ve created in their mind that is not really exactly you irl but is more like what you want to be and has a life that continues in your head with like weird continuing daydreams but they’re not perfect or anything and wow i forget where i was going with this
yeah, mine saved the world
God, I’m the worst
Mine ruled the world.
Mine ruled the entire state of California after the apocalypse. I wish I were joking.
But it means you’ve got a healthy imagination.
does anyone else have this other self they’ve created in their mind that is not really exactly you irl but is more like what you want to be and has a life that continues in your head with like weird continuing daydreams but they’re not perfect or anything and wow i forget where i was going with this
yeah, mine saved the world
God, I’m the worst
Mine ruled the world.
Do you ever log into Tumblr, look at your dash, and think, “Now, why on earth would that person ‘like’ that particular post?”
I don’t believe the Bible or the Qur’an is divine (having read both of them in their entirety). I don’t believe in sin—-and therefore the whole point of following the monotheistic religions (viz., salvation) is nullified. So why keep subjecting myself to the cognitive dissonance and aggravation of trying to believe something whose fundamental tenets make no sense to me?
I’m just going to meditate, and whatever form my spirituality takes from here on in, that’s fine, but it almost certainly won’t be Abrahamic monotheism. Might be pagan, might be strictly Buddhist, who knows?
I think…I may be done with monotheism…
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