2007-11-28 03:57:18 · 15 answers · asked by Jagga B 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
religions are nearly always a flag of convenience.
2007-11-28 03:59:55 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey come on.. How many people. Including you I suspect when asked your religeon say. C of E. I am no Christian or Muslim. But I am also no hypocrit. I am pagan and always say I am a pagan. I dont need to lie or take a conveniant way out. So are you two faced?????
2007-11-28 05:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by uk_pagan54 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason that Jim and Tammy Faye Baker (PTL Church) went on tv every week and extoled the virtues of the Christian religion, then asked people to send in money to help their church do good works - and then kept all the money.
Or that Rev. Haggard had a gay lover, and took LSD while leading a huge church and telling people to follow the Bible .
Or that George Bush tells us he's protecting our freedoms and our rights by taking some of them away because the terrorists might use them.
Or that people who follow a book that says "thou shalt not kill" have run around killing people 'in the name of God' for 3,000
years.
Muslims and Christians and Liberals and Conservatives are just people. The best of any of them are good people, the majority of all of them don't need to be here.
2007-11-28 05:00:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Most" Muslims? Would you please be more specific, and quote an exact percentage from your vast experience in these matters?
People are human, and people in every faith group fall short of the expectations of their God. I know I do.
By the way, did you know that the word "Islam" means "surrender". If there is a difference between surrendering to the will of God, and being born again, would you please point it out to me?
2007-11-28 11:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by Pagan Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The strict application of the faith is for those who are good and ( in the case of) those who rule others a case of "don't do as I do do as I say". as witness the number of Saudi and others from strict countries who flout the rules here in the UK.
2007-11-28 05:11:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have never understood why a group of drunk Muslims beat a person I know untill they agreed to recite the Shahadda, I think it might be guilt or something.
2007-11-28 04:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by Link strikes back 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Same reason as anybody who professes to follow a religion is.They pick and choose what they want from their religion and fit that around their life
2007-11-28 04:02:06 · answer #7 · answered by darwinsfriend AM 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cos that's the way they can milk the system for everything its worth, i.e, claiming benefits from 4 different addresses.
2007-11-28 04:02:41 · answer #8 · answered by Roachy 2, 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
They do have a tendancy to pick and choose from the Koran at will...usually the worst parts!
2007-11-28 04:00:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Most of us are like that, its a human trait, not a muslim one.
2007-11-28 04:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋