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Originally Posted by iruinedyourday
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Or like this one, "Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)"
oh wait.. wrong book.
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Most modern Christians choose to ignore most of the old testament, because the old testament is about as sadistic as the Quran, and it's no longer compatible with most Western cultures.
(Normally when culture evolves away from religious scripture, that society adapts the scripture to serve its needs. You see this with pretty much every religion on Earth... the Eastern Orthodox church being an application of Christianity to Eastern slavic / Greek cultures, Catholicism for romance countries, and Protestantism to Nordic countries, with each denomination tending to reflect the values of that region in the way they commune with their God).
With Islam it seems to work in the reverse for some reason. Culture seems to adapt to serve Islamic values. It's quite interesting really. The only major dogmatic shifts I can think of in Islam are Sunni / Shiite, and Wahhabism (there are other small denominations tantamount to Mormons/Mennonites etc), and they are all
massive spanning tons of regions and peoples, with your typical Indonesian Muslim pretty much following the same character of Islam as someone in Morocco.
I think the easiest conclusion is that your typical follower of Islam is a bit more 'religious' than your typical Christian. So when you are quoting a verse from the Quran and comparing it with a verse from the Old or New testaments, you're probably more likely to find a group that actually believes the verse.