Reply To: Majiid Nawaz… reforming Islam?

[SteveInCO]

Christianity, through it’s various flavours, has kind of reformed itself inch by excruciating inch as society has changed which is what allows Christians (fundamentalists notwithstanding) to pick and choose from the Bible these days. Islam seems to be having more trouble.

Actually fundamentalists pick and choose as well, it’s just that the scope of what they leave lying on the table is a bit smaller. None of them follow all of the mosaic law. They’ll make some argument about Jesus relieving some of it, but that’s the point–that’s the very escape clause that allows one to pick and choose. They’ll happily bring along the parts about homosexuality being an abomination where others will say “no need to” if they even admit the passage exists at all.