When Same-Sex Marriage Was a Christian Rite

[gwinna]

Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University’s history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents

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I see that you are still selectively quoting little parts of a whole, which other posters have already established were written during a period of war between Muslims, Jews and Christians.

You're still pretending that all Muslims interpret the entire Quran, Surah and Hadith as having the same meaning and as all applying in the modern day, which is false. There is no religion in which all it's adherents have the same interpretation of it.

The Old Testament of the Bible calls on the Israelites - the people of Yaweh (God) to kill all those who worship other Gods - and their children and their animals ( e.g Joshua 6:20-21, Deuteronomy 2:32-35 , Deuteronomy 3:3-7,Numbers 31:7-18 , 1 Samuel 15:1-9 ).

By your dodgy argument, that must prove all Christians believe they should kill all non-Christians.

What do i hear you say? They don't. Right - and neither do all Muslims take that one passage you use as a source as applying in Islam.

The fact that Copts were murdered by Muslim extremists in Egypt (and recently by the Egyptian military to try to divide and conquer the democratic revolution there - google it) does not prove all Muslims want to kill all Christians, any more than the crusades or recent murder of a Muslim woman in California , or even the atrocities committed by US - mostly Christian - forces in targeting Muslim civilians, ambulances and medics with snipers in Falluja and Samarra in Iraq in 2004 (see the BBC report 'Picture Emerges of Falluja siege') prove that all Christians want to kill all Muslims - they don't either.

It is interesting to note that your constant refrain that "Muslims hate/want to kill all Jews / all Christians" has the same logical structure as the argument that all rectangles are squares, or that all atheists are mass murderers on the grounds that some of them have been (e.g Pol Pot) - and the same (lack of) any evidence in reality - with plenty of examples of Muslims who neither hate nor wish to kill Muslims or Jews.

[inkedfeathers]

... thank you. ♥

I wonder what this person must think of Muslims who marry non-Muslims. Or what they must think of the many Muslims who come from non-Muslim families. Does this person think they wish to kill them too?

Even in the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)'s time, he preached that Muslims should love and respect their families. "Heaven is underneath the feet of the mothers." Whether or not their family was Muslim or non, he would encourage Muslims to give their relatives gifts and to treat them kindly.

And treating neighbours well is also enjoined! Even when it comes to non-People of the Book. There was a pagan who would throw thorns and other harmful things in the Prophet's way when he went to pray each day and one day, she (I think it was a woman, but I might not be remembering clearly, since it's late and I'm going by memory ^^;) did not throw anything harmful, so he wondered about the reason. He found out she was sick and visited her (or him, whichever ^^;;) to check up on her health, out of concern! I think she even became a Muslimah after it..