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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Your suggestion was education as a starting point, which is plainly nonsense because Muslims being educated (yes, even the women) is not remotely new or revolutionary.
You don't understand Sharia, or the Ten Commandments apparently, as all Christian lives are based on the spirit of them (just as all Muslim lives are based on the spirit of Sharia). If you seriously believe otherwise, tell me exactly what you think Christians use for their moral compass, or why they're Christian at all.
It's great that you're basing your interpretation of progressive Islam on "I see burqas" but you should probably factor in things like: in the 1970s there were less than 100K Muslims in Canada, in the 80s that number doubled, and today that number is over 1 million. How many burkas are you seeing? I think I've seen less than 5 in my entire life, at most. It's not uncommon to see the hijab/head scarf, but I know a lot of Muslim women who are educated, strong women that wear it with pride. Some progressive Muslims view it as a negative symbol, but they often simply don't wear it in that case.
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I understand things far better than you assume I do. Again, and I don't want to beat this to death, if you believe that Christians or Muslims live their lives based on the tenets of the bible or the Quran and not what they are "told" to believe by their local Priests, clergy or Imams based on "their definition of the particular tome they preach", then I have a bridge to sell you.
Most people are far to busy in their daily lives to actually read, understand and practice what they have read, leaving that to the leaders of the various theistic practice they follow. Thus the term, a flock of sheep.
Quite frankly the vast majority of atheists are those who have taken the time to read and understand those books.