Religions: Decadent versus Corrupted
Fundamentalist Islam views the Christian world with contempt for its descent into religious irrelevance, its acceptance of relativity and moderation, its subordination to politics in acceptance of separation of Church and State.Above all, it manifests utter contempt for the loosening of religious and social strictures, the acceptance of a popular mass culture, the edging away of the Christian Church from strict adherence to holy scriptures, in preference of interpreting religious law through the lens of modernity.
The emancipation of religious dictates to render Christianity more palatable to modern society is an abomination in the eyes of fundamentalist Islamists who view the West and liberal democracies as decadent, deceitful, flawed beyond redemption.
This is a West, and liberal democracies, and Christian denominations who accept the concept of relativity, and who stand prepared to accept the equal value of other religions, cultures, traditions and ideologies. A religion that has accepted social enlightenment.
Their effete submission to modern demands for moderation have earned them contempt as completely devalued religious institutions as far as Islamists are concerned. So Muslim militants see nothing amiss in terrorizing the Christians among them in the Middle East. In visiting dreadful atrocities among men, women and children, to persuade them that their place is no longer to reside within Muslim communities.
Throughout the Middle East, Christian churches are bombed, Christian social centres, libraries destroyed, children abducted, girls and women raped and murdered. Ancient Christian sects whose legitimacy goes back to the First Century are being targeted by militant Muslims as abhorrent anomalies in the larger Islamic community.
But then, sectarian violence among Muslims themselves goes on apace; Sunni against Shi'ite, and vice versa. For every Christian girl and woman raped and murdered, for every Christian man and child abducted, tortured and murdered, there are dozens of Muslims who meet a like fate.
One could fairly say then, that Islam, whose followers proclaim it to be a religion of peace and fellowship, has been irredeemably besmirched, and corrupted by fanatical Islamists.
The question then is, if religions are to be compared, in the final analysis it is the effete, decadent Christianity that offers no assault, massive or minuscule, upon the alternative religions, rendering it superior as an instrument of god's charity, to Islam.
Whose fundamentalist corruption into a religion that will brook no alternatives on pain of death, visits mayhem and murder on the world stage.
Labels: Realities, Religion, Social-Cultural Deviations
posted by Pieface @ Friday, June 20, 2008
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