10-23-2003, 10:55 PM
Wise words indeed radiya. Thanks for your response. I'm not even here to argue. Just get some input.
But you did bring up some interesting points although the relevancy of some of them were a bit "iffy", particularly about the number of wives for various prophets. :confused: and the jews :confused:
Anyway, no matter.
A lot of what Mohaddam says just appears to be, well, common sense rather than divine. I remember reading somewhere Mohammad saying that god had told him that the Muslim armies were to cover up their "toilet stuff" and not leave it lying around the camp. See, I don't think that is divine and in the grand scheme of things it just kind of makes sense. Then if you dig a bit deeper than some of the innocuous stuff and get into things like the imbalance of power between men and women I just wonder about just how benevolant he was. This is where I interpret things differently. You being a religious person probably don't interpret it at all, you probably take it at face value and I just wonder why that is.
On the subject of moses and jesus being divine, no, I don't think they were particularly divine either, no. In fact, I think jesus lived his life according to the prophesies that were known at that time.
I think most religious thought is based on simple superstition played upon by the people of that time, "Don't do that or it's fire and brimstone" etc etc. I just can't see any of it being "divine".