Oh, Dear God!
Did you hear? The Catholic Church has issued a new list of sins.
WOW. No offense to each and every one of you beautiful and wonderful Catholics (with whom I would get down before any other denomination), but seriously? This sort of thing makes me understand the rate of 'apostasy' (I learned that word last year!) and it's heartbreaking.
Imagine walking around and constantly waiting for some random dude (learned or otherwise) playing God and ADDING sins on behalf of God? That would kill me, and my humble opinion is that the Catholic Church (God love them) has to chill out.
Don't misunderstand me here; I think some of the new 'sins' make sense.(1) BUT NOT AS SINS. They should be recommendations put forth by the Catholic church, period. Not "SINS" because a sin is - by definition - decreed by no one but God. Naturally, as a Muslimah, I believe that all of the sins have been pointed out and now we just go on our merry way being retarded sinners who can't get it and keep it together for the entirety of this short life. But we try - or so we aim...
(I know you're wondering: Isn't a Fatwah the same thing? The answer is 'no' because a Fatwah is almost always a response to an answer...such as 'Should we kill Salman because of his craptastic writing?' that was met with the phenominally stupid "YES! Because it's not bad enough that he is really, and I mean REALLY a CRAPTASTIC writer and maybe 17 people will read this terrible book - let's make things worse by collectively doing something that will bring attention to the man and make him sell a billion copies. Does anyone have anything better to worry about, anyway? It doesn't matter that Muslims are being occupied and slaughtered, LET'S FOCUS ON THE CRAPTASTIC WRITER, PLEASE! Yalla.'
This is why one may find competing Fatwah's; something which happens quite often and speaks to the idea within Islam that at the end of the day, each individual must read, question, research, look to the learned, and finally decide / choose the 'response' (Fatwah) which is most logical to them.
It is also why each Fatwah must end with 'W'Allahu A'llam', which means "...and God knows best", referencing the reality that no matter the amount of information and knowledge we hold as human beings, it is only He who does indeed know best. )
Anyway. Poor Catholics. I'm sending you a very big hug.
(Remember: I Heart Jesus.)
Thoughts?
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(1) I get the no pollution one, but the one about genetic engineering? The Church needs to stop fearing Science; my personal opinion here is that The Church fears Science because they (unnecessarily & contrary to Faith) perceive it as a competing factor...but I'm just one little Muslimah so what do I know, eh?What with being oppressed and all. Insert here a creepy little winking emoticon.
WOW. No offense to each and every one of you beautiful and wonderful Catholics (with whom I would get down before any other denomination), but seriously? This sort of thing makes me understand the rate of 'apostasy' (I learned that word last year!) and it's heartbreaking.
Imagine walking around and constantly waiting for some random dude (learned or otherwise) playing God and ADDING sins on behalf of God? That would kill me, and my humble opinion is that the Catholic Church (God love them) has to chill out.
Don't misunderstand me here; I think some of the new 'sins' make sense.(1) BUT NOT AS SINS. They should be recommendations put forth by the Catholic church, period. Not "SINS" because a sin is - by definition - decreed by no one but God. Naturally, as a Muslimah, I believe that all of the sins have been pointed out and now we just go on our merry way being retarded sinners who can't get it and keep it together for the entirety of this short life. But we try - or so we aim...
(I know you're wondering: Isn't a Fatwah the same thing? The answer is 'no' because a Fatwah is almost always a response to an answer...such as 'Should we kill Salman because of his craptastic writing?' that was met with the phenominally stupid "YES! Because it's not bad enough that he is really, and I mean REALLY a CRAPTASTIC writer and maybe 17 people will read this terrible book - let's make things worse by collectively doing something that will bring attention to the man and make him sell a billion copies. Does anyone have anything better to worry about, anyway? It doesn't matter that Muslims are being occupied and slaughtered, LET'S FOCUS ON THE CRAPTASTIC WRITER, PLEASE! Yalla.'
This is why one may find competing Fatwah's; something which happens quite often and speaks to the idea within Islam that at the end of the day, each individual must read, question, research, look to the learned, and finally decide / choose the 'response' (Fatwah) which is most logical to them.
It is also why each Fatwah must end with 'W'Allahu A'llam', which means "...and God knows best", referencing the reality that no matter the amount of information and knowledge we hold as human beings, it is only He who does indeed know best. )
Anyway. Poor Catholics. I'm sending you a very big hug.
(Remember: I Heart Jesus.)
Thoughts?
********************
(1) I get the no pollution one, but the one about genetic engineering? The Church needs to stop fearing Science; my personal opinion here is that The Church fears Science because they (unnecessarily & contrary to Faith) perceive it as a competing factor...but I'm just one little Muslimah so what do I know, eh?
Labels: Faith
posted by just a girl at 11:15 PM
7 Comments:
Gahhh, I was raised Catholic. I don't go to Church much, because it's run by PEOPLE, and PEOPLE so often misinterpret GOD.
I don't believe in CHURCH. I have FAITH.
I have to have faith that someone will make an official retraction on this, 'cause it's just STUPID.
Lurve,
Espy xox
This has always been one of the stupidities of the Catholic Church - the men in control play God on Earth. How can any human take on the role of The Omnipotent Being and make decisions and rules on His behalf?
I was raised a Catholic and left when I was in university and have never looked back. I believe in God, I just don't know what faith to follow and recently Islam has become a lot more interesting because it seems to have a greater and more comprehensive body of answers than others. It also present a much kinder God than the Catholic one. It's no surprise that so many people and increasing numbers turn from Catholicism to other faiths.
It's really such a sad state of affairs that they are still willing to play the Hand of God card. It must really make them feel like they have the largest balls in the world. Pardon :)
Thomas
i like this idea of ending rants with yalla. i think i'll start doin that.
I'm a "Jew" by birth and we've got it pretty easy until the mo-fos take Judaism to screw politics. No one in my family says they're Jewish anymore because we don't want to be associated with Israel. My grandmother's the only one and she yells it most of the time, declaring she's A JEW NOT A ZIONIST. She yells because she can't hear and it makes it all that more hilarious when she's speaking to other Jews.
Poor catholics, man, I'd take Islam over the church any day. Can I drink every once in a while?? ;) -lily
like anjum, i like this 'yalla' idea. i'm going to use that word a lot starting now.
also, lily, your story about your grandmother made me laugh. "She yells because she can't hear" works well with strong convictions.
What is Yalla??
:)
Great post that's simple and to the point about the problem.
Yalla means "anyway" or "let's go". It can mean a variety of things depending on how it's used in a sentence, but usually those are the two meanings. A lot of Arabs use it to close a sentence or a thought and it sort of menas "whatever".
Hope that he,ps.
Haya
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