Test For Determining Whether A Religion Is Bad

[mike435]

zubin still waiting

[zubin]

so what is pourpous

islam and judisam one of their most basic and major pourpous is to dictate how one should live their daily life, if you reform that you have destroyed its original pourpouse

off course this is just one porpous

spreading g-dly ness, is another porpuse

zubin i think unless reform is inbeded into the working of the relligion, any reform you apply is going against the religion

First, due to changes in circumstances, every religion has mechanisms of law-making, and law-changing, to best represent the religion.

Second, the fact that the representation of the religion is open to interpretation makes the law-making itself open to different approaches.

Third, there is a test for what "the most essential purpose" of something is.

Promoting the belief in God is a not the most essential purpose because one can simply ask: "what is the purpose of that?" So there is a higher purpose involved. The highest purpose is when one hits rock bottom and can not ask that question any more.

Applied to this argument, the purpose of teaching the belief in God in the Arab world was to get rid of belief in multiple and clearly false gods, and the corrupt, insecure and unwanted society and lifestyle that that brought. That's pretty much rock bottom. It is more essential than the purpose you hypothesized because it is the purpose of that purpose.