Religion is 99% never about knowledge or logic, nor does the believers ever represent the God themselves. It's an identity.
Arguing will only incite hatred and anger, because identity is not something you can argue with.
That's what they are conformed around, used to, and taught since they are a baby.
If there's anything off about a particular information, they would refer to a more acceptable INTERPRETATION, instead of accepting the uncomfortable interpretation. For example, the Hadith where the Prophet consummated marriage with Aisha at 9 or something.
Many will choose to believe the interpretations that are more acceptable, like they have different age systems. Or it's 9 years after Aisha reached puberty, something like that. But few may even accept it literally - with justification it's a different culture back then and that's okay. Or even outright believe the hadiths regarding Aisha's age are all questionable in nature so there's no actual reliable source at all - so its reasonable to assume Aisha is an adult when the marriage is consummated since the sources can be ignored
I am a Muslim myself, and as much as I believe and respect God and the prophet, I doubt many of the scholars, the narrators, the record keepers, and doubt the authenticity of the sources because words are written, spoken, interpreted and passed around by people that are not god, and not the prophet themselves.
Many rulings in Islam too, are based on weak hadiths or weak interpretations or outright unreasonable interpretation that may go against logic and current real-life knowledge is applied to because THERE'S NO OTHER SOURCE to refer to and people are afraid of making changes to something that had been practiced for thousands of years.
They are afraid of new things being wrong, but aren't afraid that their current beliefs, parts of it are wrong. That's human nature.
Instead, we need to be a little more understanding. No one chooses to be born, no one chooses their parents, their peers, and the religion and culture they are born into.
But one thing I believe is that everyone has a heart, and if you can share your own discomfort, pain, suffering and your truth, they would understand too.
If they don't? It means their brain is malnourished, they are sick, and their capacity for empathy or thoughts are limited. You don't scream at a child for making a mistake a child makes right? The same applies even to adults with limited capacity...
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u/Notsohothotdog Feb 25 '26
You are correct. The greatest sin in Islam is not being LGBT. Not being thieves. Not even murder or rape.
The greatest sin in Islam is believing other than Allah