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Originally Posted by Cheese
As with the Bible, Muslims who cherry pick or as you suggest, "promote liberal interpretations", are just as bad. If a tome is supposedly written by a God or Godlike person the tome should leave no room for interpretation.
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Sure, and in absence of the abolition of freedom of religion and the essentially impossible elimination of every religion on earth, what option would you prefer?
A bunch of Christians and Muslims running around believing in medieval punishments?
Or a bunch of progressive Christians and Muslims running around believing that, considering their age, it's probably ok not to interpret the texts verbatim, and instead live your life off the positive guidance it can provide.
Calling option number 2 just as bad is stupid. It might still be worse than being a virtuous atheist, but outside of that it is pretty clearly a massive improvement over taking the texts and following them verbatim.