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It still doesn't make any sense. If God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the Universe, can't He take care of Himself? After all, back in the Bible da

It still doesn't make any sense. If God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the Universe, can't He take care of Himself? After all, back in the Bible days, God was taking out His vengeance on people who got on His bad side all the time.

tsotha 14y ago
>It still doesn't make any sense. If God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the Universe, can't He take care of Himself? If you really believe your religious text is the word of God, why would you question His motives? It's not your place. The word "Islam" literally means "submission" in Arabic. The context for your thinking is the European Enlightenment. There was no such thing in Islam.
jlgreco 14y ago
This is hardly the first case of Abrahamic religions not making sense. If you going in expecting self-consistency and logic, you are going to have a bad time... Anyway, I don't think the GP is entirely correct. Sure, perhaps to a certain extent religious people react negatively to the blasphemy of outsiders because it is the dogma of their religion to do so. I think the greater cause however is that all people, even religious people, tend to be rather rational. When people hear others poking fun of their religion they become upset, not because they "know" they are right (and most would say without hesitation that they do), but because somewhere deep down inside a part of them considers the possibility that the blasphemer just might be right. Blasphemy tickles those deep-seated insecurities. As rational as people are, they really don't like being wrong and made to look a fool.
- tsotha 14y ago
  I still think you're projecting your cultural context onto people with a different culture. If it was all about insecurity they'd react the way Christians reacted to "Piss Christ". But they don't, do they?

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It still doesn't make any sense. If God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the Universe, can't He take care of Himself? After all, back in the Bible da

by rglovejoy 14y ago

tsotha 14y ago
>It still doesn't make any sense. If God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the Universe, can't He take care of Himself? If you really believe your religious text is the word of God, why would you question His motives? It's not your place. The word "Islam" literally means "submission" in Arabic. The context for your thinking is the European Enlightenment. There was no such thing in Islam.
jlgreco 14y ago
This is hardly the first case of Abrahamic religions not making sense. If you going in expecting self-consistency and logic, you are going to have a bad time... Anyway, I don't think the GP is entirely correct. Sure, perhaps to a certain extent religious people react negatively to the blasphemy of outsiders because it is the dogma of their religion to do so. I think the greater cause however is that all people, even religious people, tend to be rather rational. When people hear others poking fun of their religion they become upset, not because they "know" they are right (and most would say without hesitation that they do), but because somewhere deep down inside a part of them considers the possibility that the blasphemer just might be right. Blasphemy tickles those deep-seated insecurities. As rational as people are, they really don't like being wrong and made to look a fool.
- tsotha 14y ago
  I still think you're projecting your cultural context onto people with a different culture. If it was all about insecurity they'd react the way Christians reacted to "Piss Christ". But they don't, do they?