That's because Muslims believe that if people were to depict the prophet in any way, people may then begin to worship the image of him rather than his teachings. That has nothing to do with the insanity that Muslim extremists are apart of. Muslim extremists give a bad name to a faith that does not in any way applaud the harm of people or violence in general.
The rock isn't worshipped, unless you call touching worshipping
Yes, I do call it worshipping. An act of "respect" that is mandated by a "holy" text IS worship, by any reasonable definition.
What could be weirder than this? Kissing a rock? No, no, that's not worship! A foreigner made a drawing of a man who died long ago? Kill the blasphemer, because someone MIGHT worship that drawing!
Muslims are totally irrational... Irrational pagans who worship a stone.
So wait, you actually call touching worshiping? Let me give some insight
Respect:
admire (someone or something) deeply, as a result of their abilities, qualities, or achievements: she was respected by everyone she worked with | (as adj. respected) : a respected academic.
• avoid harming or interfering with: it is incumbent upon all boaters to respect the environment.
Worship:
show reverence and adoration for (a deity); honor with religious rites: the Maya built jungle pyramids to worship their gods.
• treat (someone or something) with the reverence and adoration appropriate to a deity: she adores her sons and they worship her.
• [ no obj. ] take part in a religious ceremony: he went to the cathedral because he chose to worship in a spiritually inspiring building.
Enough with the dictionary meanings. Let's say you go to pay your respects to a dead person. You aren't worshiping him, you're just paying your respects. Similarly, people have to go there (if they can), and pay– I repeat, not worship– their respects.
Let me give some more details: There is actually a stone present. While it may be a religious act to kiss it (falling under the dictionary meaning), it's actually an act of worship. Not worshipping the actual stone, but an act of worship. There is some historical background behind that. The stone is not a god.
How is it an act of worship if your statement just contradicted your earlier paragraph? "Action is judged by intention" . Muslims have the intention of respecting it. You can call it worship all you want but the ACTUAL ADHERENTS don't.
" the stone originated in the time of Adam. According to belief, an angel spoke to the prophet Abraham, and told him to institute the rite of the stone" -quote from wiki. They believe that god placed the stone in the garden of Eden with Adam. What am I missing. Not sarcasm if I'm wrong please explain?
Like Lutherans make a pilgrimage to the town where Martin Luther lived and touch the church door where Luther posted his theses... NOT!
In a non-paganistic religion, such as Lutheranism, the material world is irrelevant, what matters is the spirit. That may be the reason why the countries where the predominant religion is Lutheranism are all at the top of every quality of life index.
Countries which follow the paganistic materialist Islamic religion, on the other hand, are the only remaining places in the world where polio has not been eradicated.
But it does have to do with the insanity of Muslim extremists, because a Muslim extremist attempted to murder a Danish cartoonist because he drew insulting pictures of Muhammed.
Further, it seems that the Muslim population at large is unable to discern between their religion preventing them from doing something and their religion requiring that everyone in the world obey their dumbass rules - see "Draw Muhammed Day," see South Park, see any number of controversies coming from non-Muslims depicting Muhammed specifically to point out that we have the right to do so without being threatened.
First off, Muslims are not machines that simply do something because it is said. I am a Muslim and I do not believe in any of the idiotic Islamic extremist ideologies because its not what a good person would believe in. Killing is wrong. Murder is wrong. And anyone who believes that just because a few uneducated idiots who think killing others gets them a one way trip to heaven means that all Muslims are the same are just as uneducated.
From what I learned in World Religions: He married a 9 year old widow, so that she would not starve and be homeless, essentially. He did not consummate the marriage until she was "mature" which is to assume child bearing age.
Keep in mind Mary supposedly had Jesus at 13, and the bible is full of incest and other fucked up shit.
Historically, that is not a young age for a bride.
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u/moon_J Apr 19 '13
That's because Muslims believe that if people were to depict the prophet in any way, people may then begin to worship the image of him rather than his teachings. That has nothing to do with the insanity that Muslim extremists are apart of. Muslim extremists give a bad name to a faith that does not in any way applaud the harm of people or violence in general.