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Interesting comments all the way around. So, then while we are at it, please allow me to throw some food for thought, as they say in the theater, upon the grill: If we A) define "religion" to mean a system of spirituality, that is, the way that each of us relates to the Eternal Divine in our everyday lives; how we emotionally, intellectually, and philosophically deal with the Eternal whilst living in a body which will eventually go away-while our spirit still remains, and B) recognize that "Spirit" or "the Spirit" - that part of us in which God is - is beyond anything so temporal as gender, skin color, eye color, ethnicity, or anything like that - and then we carefully examine a great deal of what Islam's sharia law deals with - which has everything to do with gender, etc etc. then it could very well be argued that Islam is not a religion, but a culture disguising itself as a religion. When you look at it in that light, much becomes explained.
Interesting comments all the way around. So, then while we are at it, please allow me to throw some food for thought, as they say in the theater, upon the grill:
If we A) define "religion" to mean a system of spirituality, that is, the way that each of us relates to the Eternal Divine in our everyday lives; how we emotionally, intellectually, and philosophically deal with the Eternal whilst living in a body which will eventually go away-while our spirit still remains, and B) recognize that "Spirit" or "the Spirit" - that part of us in which God is - is beyond anything so temporal as gender, skin color, eye color, ethnicity, or anything like that - and then we carefully examine a great deal of what Islam's sharia law deals with - which has everything to do with gender, etc etc. then it could very well be argued that Islam is not a religion, but a culture disguising itself as a religion. When you look at it in that light, much becomes explained.
