US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on murder of lawmaker Jo Cox: 'The assassination of MP Jo Cox at the hands of a man driven by hatred is a manifestation of a coarseness in our politics and hatred toward the other that we must not tolerate' - @mikememoli via abreaking
FROM a learned, experienced, religious friend: To Theists (and to interested in a civilized society) about type of reform necessary to debunk #Islamofascism .. and right wing #Christofascism .. .
. "We Theists must begin the pilgrimage from #literalism to #contextualism...from judgment to acceptance. You know #Islam, for generations, provided mankind with #knowledge and #beauty. The religion, admittedly, has many different sects...Sunni, Shia, Sufi....but the #Ottoman Empire had given #Shari'a Law a #contextual interpretation. Homosexuality was #decriminalized.
EXPANDING: Conflict between canons and compassion informs us about #Orlando. Before the Beatitudes or the Great Decalogue, there is the specter of the Hebrew Holiness Code and Christian Pauline proscriptions. Somewhere among these literal translations of Scripture, and within a Christofascist theocratic impulse, love without judgment is lost.
For most mainline Christians, these canons are contextual in their understanding. Transitioning to Judaism, we can state that Leviticus is not a theocratic prescription for LGBT Jews. Israel did not make the Holiness Code their civil law.
Islam, for generations, provided mankind with knowledge and beauty. The religion, admittedly, has many different sects...Sunni, Shia, Sufi....but the Ottoman Empire had given Shari'a Law a contextual interpretation. Homosexuality was decriminalized.
What happened? Islamofascism happened. The Iranian Revolution among the Shia. Wahabi radicalism among the Sunni...and it is the latter that spread throughout autocracies of the Middle East and Muslim Asia. The Saudi petro wealth and its "Royal" family spread Wahabi schools throughout the world. Stone Age Religion with destruction of civilization and barbaric interpretation of the Koran ensued.
Wahhabism is the extreme Islamofascist interpretation . Wahabi was Saudi, and married into that family. Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia...hence the centricity of that religion there.
No historian would claim that Western Christian holy wars or the Irish conflicts was entirely theological. In fact, I would argue that it was 99% political and 1% theological. ISIS is about 100% political cloaked in religious weaponry.
Self hatred based upon Stone Age interpretation permeates all three Abrahamic faith systems to one degree or another. The Struggle between the literal and the contextual, has given rise to individuals who act out their internal conflict...in suicidal and or homicidal tragedies… that we see repeated daily.
We theists must begin the pilgrimage from literalism to contextualism, from judgment of others to acceptance of others. "
AND It is, all about RESPECT and LOVE ... Especially SelfRespect and SelfLove not SelfHate -- Raymond Decelles Sawyer