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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (38)	5/7/2003 6:04:00 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

>>> The latter suggests that a religion changes through time as history unfolds<<< It does Well, much less than, say fashion. Because it is not supposed to change. A religion's adherents believe their way of life (as dictated by their God/prophet/etc is the way it is supposed to be. >>> I cannot say my knowledge of Islam is anywhere near exhaustive, but neither can I think of any part of it that has changed through time...<<< So you think that the many sects of Sunnis such as Hambali, Hanafi, Bukharai, Wahaabi, etc and the Shia sects such as Jafari, Zeydi, Ismaili, etc, and even the free-form sects of Islam such as Khawarej, Suffis, Motazellah and so on all existed from the day one and were not effected by the political process? Or are you saying they are not Muslim Neither. I am saying that branching in time does not mean changing in time. Perhaps a useful analogy is the Tree of Evolution: We start with Homo Erectus 1.7 mn years ago. If you take a look at the Tree, you will see that there is branching rather than "change", since the original continues unchanged and several branches exist simultaneously: channel4.com (First Tree I found on Google. Admittedly there are better, more precise ones you can find, but you get the idea...) In short - Islam has branched. It has not changed as a monolithic block. In fact, the word "nation" in the middle east means "fallowers of a religion". Which word are you referring to? Yet, just like religious interpretations, the constitution has been interpreted and reinterpreted according to the needs I am sorry but you have said this several times now and I still don't know what you mean... In which way has Judaism changed "according to the needs", in your opinion? Or has Islam changed over the past hundred years or so in line with the global sexual revolution?