09-18-2003, 06:00 PM
You cannot reform the religion, you can only reform the people. Reform of religion is something that the Christians have been doing for ages, which has done nothing but lead them further away from the original teaching, and caused social unrest within. This leads to the creation of new 'branches' of the faith with everyone thinking thier way is right, and all others are doomed. The message gets lost in the shuffle, and leads to ignorance. Once while at a Bible study, I was asked to go outside and ask the next person on the street what religion they were, and can they quote for me ONE verse fro the Bible.
I went out to find a Prespetrian (I don't know the spelling) and when I asked him to quote a verse, he could not. He did say 'Love your neighbor as yourself' which also is an Islamic principal, but he has no idea that the beginning of that verse warns to obey the law of Moses, also very similiar to Islaim principal.
As far as the Quran preaching hatred, I beg to differ. Insha Allah, I will post somthing on that shortly. I hope it will help.