The Origin of The Shia - Part One: OnThis Subject

» Pinky102 - OnThis Subject

In response to Re: Re: Re: Re: Mullahs posted by Binte:

On this subject of fundamentalism in the various religious persausions, there appears to be a common thread connecting them together. It seems to me, and if I'm wrong I hope someone can show me where and how that is true, that they all go by the letter of their main source materials. Some how they get caught in a trap of their own making believing that their source material, eg., Bible for Christians, is the absolute and inerrant Word of God as given to the writers--the Q'ran for Muslims. What is the book the Hindus use?

Trouble with using such a complicated and complex set of books as the 66 of the Bible is that the span of time involved covers upwards of a hundred generations of people starting in the stone age and progressing up to the time of the Romans. I guess the Muslims add another 5 or 6 hundred years to their book.

In no way do I mean to depricate Christians, Muslims or Hindus; but, come on, literalism is just plain difficult to accept for intelligent people. In the earliest days when people started calling themselves after the name of Christ, Christians were told by some that they had to become Jews before they could become Christians. And, that was rejected by the great teachers such as the apostle Paul. But, now, because of the influence of literalism, Christians are being taught that they need to become Jews after they have become Christians. This sets up a class of people who are prejudiced by their source material to hate others at the deepest level because God directs them to hate.

I know that isn't true of all people; but, it certainly is simmering among the Fundamentalists of Christianity. And, they are being met with an equal and opposite force in groups like the Wahabis. Where does the problem start? I say it starts in the literalist mind.

-- posted by Pinky102