No that's absurd. I know many peaceable Muslims. But that's because they differentiate "fundamentalist" from the other kind, where the other kind must pick through the holy book and follow the parts that actually work in a Western liberal setting. But these peaceful Muslims are in a horrible Catch-22 because a "good Muslim" is still one …
No that's absurd. I know many peaceable Muslims. But that's because they differentiate "fundamentalist" from the other kind, where the other kind must pick through the holy book and follow the parts that actually work in a Western liberal setting. But these peaceful Muslims are in a horrible Catch-22 because a "good Muslim" is still one who believes the whole book, and that gives them cognitive dissonance which they can't resolve. The paradox is only resolved by logically concluding that Islam is a false religion, false in the sense that it doesn't produce good outcomes, so it can't be true, because we don't have a God whose book doesn't work, but a God whose book does work.
No that's absurd. I know many peaceable Muslims. But that's because they differentiate "fundamentalist" from the other kind, where the other kind must pick through the holy book and follow the parts that actually work in a Western liberal setting. But these peaceful Muslims are in a horrible Catch-22 because a "good Muslim" is still one who believes the whole book, and that gives them cognitive dissonance which they can't resolve. The paradox is only resolved by logically concluding that Islam is a false religion, false in the sense that it doesn't produce good outcomes, so it can't be true, because we don't have a God whose book doesn't work, but a God whose book does work.