[iup=3653808]CuriousOyster[/iup] wrote:[iup=3653785]Stugene[/iup] wrote:[iup=3653775]CuriousOyster[/iup] wrote:All religion is written by humans and therefore bullshit #FactsOnly
How does that arguement tie up with other books written by people?
Lord of the Rings also didn't really happen. Or did it?!
Science etc can be proven (eventually) and is not a nice fabricated story.
Under your argument, a textbook on mathematics was written by a human, and is therefore bullshit.
Your argument is:
1. All humans lie
2. The bible was written by humans
3. Therefore the bible is a lie
When a far more concise argument is that the centuries of chinese whispers and numerous translations have rendered the Bible so far from it's source material that it would be difficult to even tell if the Bible itself is firstly, accurate and secondly, divine.
[iup=3653975]Lotus[/iup] wrote:Surely the fact that nobody knows what Mohammed (or Jesus) looks like makes any depiction of him purely a work of someone's imagination. I'd have thought that would be even less 'offensive' than if there was an actual likeness being lampooned and ridiculed.
I don't know what your Grandad looks like, but if I drew a picture of him with a cock for a head you probably wouldn't like it.
But thats not the point. The point is the difference between Idolatry in Islam and Christianity. Christianity accepts depictions of Christ and God as showing their devotion to the Lord and his work. There could be no greater way to celebrate the Lord than to depict Him using your greatest artists. Displaying God as a man is in-line with Christian beliefs about the Trinity and the consubstantial nature of Christ.
Islam does not have that component. Muhammad is not the same as Jesus is in Christianity. Muhammad is a prophet, similar to Moses - but far more important. As such, it is his prophecies that matter, not the man. Also, Islam is monotheistic. As such, Allah is the one you worship - Muhammad is simply a messenger. Islam forbids depictions Muhammad as it places further descriptions upon him that the scriptures themselves do not hold. It is called
Shirk, which is giving precedence to the descriptions of others rather than those which hold true only to Allah. A depiction of Muhammad would not make his prophecy any more important. As such, it is considered a sin to depict him. I don't think that's too hard to understand. I also don't think its too hard to not depict Muhammad. It does nothing except make people unhappy.