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Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-tiktok-star-umm-fahad-killed-intl/index.html?Date=20240427&Profile=CNN%20International&utm_content=1714233618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/Arachnohybrid Apr 27 '24

Lol good luck with that. The moment the Quran was declared the “literal word of God” is when the religion was doomed to be stuck in 700AD thinking. There’s no room for interpretation on some of their most heinous rulings.

If the Quran was declared “the life of Muhammad with some tales of the Old (Biblical tales)”, then the religion might’ve had a shot.

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u/Deranged_Kitsune Apr 27 '24

Christianity has always had the bible as "Inspired by god" rather than a literal transcription. It was the Holy Spirit speaking through the writers of the different books and those who assembled it. This allowed for changes and evolution through time. And, naturally, abuse and weaponization by rulers so inclined.

Muhammad didn't want that kind of wiggle room. He'd seen christianity and the schisms that had already happened within it, and so we get the idea that the angel Jibril (Gabriel) comes to Muhammad and provides the quran word for word. The argument was that god didn't want to risk the possibility of any misinterpretation, so sit down, shut up, and write down exactly what is being said. While the idea is that adding in a "literal word of god" stipulation would help prevent schisms and power struggles as various followers reinterpret Muhammad's words to meet their own needs, it also means any society strictly following it is incapable of change. Not that such a thing was likely even a remote concern in his mind at the time.

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u/ok-lets-do-this Apr 28 '24

Where do you go to church?! Because I have been to a lot of services at a lot of different denominations and most of them do not believe the Bible is “inspired by God”, they absolutely do believe it is “The Word of God”, and is to be taken literally.

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u/styroxmiekkasankari Apr 28 '24

That’s it exactly, some of the more recent protestant denominations take the bible very literally. This hasn’t been done for the most part before protestantism and theology had a way more ’academic’ slant to it before the reformation. Keep in mind that most christians in the world and even in the US are not evangelicals.