CukiZeGerman wrote:Maradonna wrote:love how people quoted scripture to be taken literally, then they complain about fundamentalist.
Considering that a lot of people take it literally it's alarming.
There are also a lot of people which take the quran literally (Wahhabism).
They prefer Salafis, wahhabism is a bit deminetory, it's like Mormons, they dont like that word.
funny anecdote, in my course there are 2 mormons and 1 suni islam dude, the muslim dude is a specialist in the mormon Jesus and he is studying the why Smith placed Jesus on America during precolombine ages. He claims that Mormonism is the most American religion in the world, because Jesus walked the land where the dreams come true, Jesus doing the America. Jesus been an inmigrant, Jesus been a puritan. The 2 mormons, 1 study hinduism, he is really into Ganesh, his tesis is about the holy trinity and hinduism (yes, i cant believe it either, but historically this "mistery" of god been human and god, and the son of god, and the holy spirit all at the same time, he claims that its bramanic) the other mormon is studing Paul the apostle.
Im, probably the only one in my class that has no strong religious background or history whatsoever. Im trying to study how genocide is related to divinity, how the divine relates to the massacre, how blood spread is prove of god existence. Im interested in monotheistic religions, thats why im no christian. Im studing trought the israelites (prior Rome entering the holy temple) and how they relate genocide exclusion and suffering with the divine.
So when you start to study religion from an academic point of view, you realized that you missed so much regarding history specially, you understand how complex are some views and how simplifided are in todays world the same views.
its fascinating, and no im not trying to be a priest.