Is there really much religious choice?

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[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Islam today is much like medieval Catholicism which must have appeared to be a hopeless mess at the time. An Islamic reformation is entirely possible, and this would include re-evaluating Hadiths based on common sense. But this is only a choice for a committed Muslim to try. For the rest of us, Islam is useless.

Christianity has more potential since the lessons of the Reformation can be re-applied. To me the obvious choice would be a new form of Anabaptism that rejects non-violence. The Anabaptists are already way ahead of other religions, and a new improved denomination of Anabaptism would have great potential.

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A lot of Christianity had a long history of taking non-violence literally, to the point where the historically Christian Western countries are struggling to protect and defend themselves against invasion of other cultures and un-Western ideas, and most "religious" groups today have been co-opted to resemble more of the one dominant global religion just dressed in religious language. For the enemies to be able to successfully subvert even the religion itself does say a lot for me sometimes. I don't know about you.