Don’t look at the context when the stuff is written. Look at the context of political interests now when the religion is actually practiced. That fits the dot most.
Should we drink alcohol? In the context of christian mongols that love beer, they would gladly show that Jesus’ first miracle is producing alcohol and enjoy the fact that drinking alcohol is part of a holy sacrament.
Obviously the puritan in US have very different view.
Should a man get many women? After catholic and protestan war where ratio between males and females are 1:10, the answer is hell yea. Polygamy were legal in christian europe at that time. Now, it’s not because there are too many single males that can vote. Same bible, same scripture, different message.
Should we kill witch? In ancient time, hell yea, the bible says so. Now, killing people for doing something that can’t actually be done will look so silly it’s politically incorrect. So scrap that.
Should we kill disbelievers? Depend. In democracy? Tough. It’s not toward the best interests of voters to let religious leaders decide who live or who die. Now, put your self on the shoes of those religious leaders? Should we kill unbelievers? Awesome. Hell yea.
The context here is whatever the interpreters want it to be. Usually they try to balance what they really want and what’s politically correct.
As far as there is no coercion in Islam or any religion… Well…
Just look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip9-sxr-wcQ
It’s not fair to see that the problem is in islam. The nature of humans are to max out power. I want you to do what I want.
Religion is a great answer on the simple question. How do I get people to do what I want. Think about it for a while. How? You got better idea? I suppose you can give them better offers but that’s often expensive right. What about if you can’t? So how? How do we get or say trick people to do what we want?
Here people believing in a god that tell them to do what I want kind of help. Those who disbelieve is out of my control zone like free slaves.
So what do humans do to slaves that just free themselves?
Just look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip9-sxr-wcQ again…
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