Posted: Mar 31, 2016 1:28 pm
tuco wrote:How to understand even basics such as lets say centralized Christianity (Vatican/Pope) with lets say interpretative Islam (local Imams), advantage or not?
Also mentioned "absolute peace" or lets say "forgiveness" in Christianity versus perhaps lets say militant tone of Islam?Our national independence's first bullet fired by an imam in Kahramanmaras when the community came to mosque for Friday prayer which is crucial for Muslims.
Advantage or not?
Maybe then perceived superiorities or situational. That is the thing. In open society nobody is in possession of absolute truth. If someone was, that someone could hold it and rule, like God, Christian or Muslim or any other.
There is new religion, open society which is superior because the only dogma it holds is that its open thus dynamic, without absolute truths.
Sorry tuco couldn't understand what you want to say but there are two things I want to point out. One is although it was nothing like the pope of christianity I mean had no spiritual power claim there was a leader of Islamic world. And there is a thesis that today's problems are a result of this power vacuum in the Islamic community. Keep in mind problems started just two decades after the abolishment of caliphate.
I'm not not trying to favour this or that religion over the laws of any modern law. But for centuries we lived under these centuries old customs and so they must have effects on our understanding of life. Just a few decades ago there were men with more than one wife in Turkey although it's banned with modern law they had married back in Ottoman period and you can't "unmarry" someone who doesn't want to divorce.