^ I obviously endorse your ideology of taking the "good" parts of scripture (from any religion) and discarding the awful bits... Would this perspective not have several hundred million adherents to your religion calling for you to be executed in some fashion or other, though?
It seems to me that there is some intractability built in to Islam that isn't built into the other Abrahamic religions that makes it tougher to convince people to get over this "a la carte" religion hump. First, that rather than claiming to be inspired by divine revelation, the Qur'an is said to be the literal word of God. Second, that Islam recognizes the prior revelations but claims to be the final word. Third, that rather than a set of principles, it purports to provide a complete code to govern the entirety of one's existence. Am I confused about any of this? Please correct me if so.
It seems to me that there needs to be a reformation, coming from within the religion itself (which obviously the "religion" is not a monolith and this is a problem in itself), that rejects the above notions as adamantine.
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