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Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod
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Could say this is the TLDR of my post. Regardless, Ill take credit for running him off this forum when it happens.
I can start pulling historical first-hand sources out of JSTOR (doubt he has access to read the links I'd give him) but he hasn't been willing to defend his religion outside of declaring that he doesn't believe in Sharia Law, which apparently absolves everyone of any responsibility.
This shrugging of responsibility, and lack of strong central leadership (RCC, Jesuit Order, etc) is the reason Islam will never have a Reformation I'd guess.
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This is of course correct. We'd not have seen the Protestant reformation had it not been for the Catholic Church and priests would
still be abusing boys were it not for the iron fist of the pope. Even in the US, it seems only mega-churches have sufficiently consolidated power to adequately stamp out corruption as it arises.
Every organization is going to suffer to some degree from exploitation and adverse selection within its leadership ranks, but smaller ones are far less capable of actually dealing with issues and more inclined to cover them up should they arise. I mean, we generally don't even
hear about issues from smaller institutions aside from the one off lunatic scenarios.
Imams simply ha e far too much leeway and that extends to adherents who submit to God, not man. The big problem for Islam is that their patron saint actually spoke the evils they profess. For Christians, their namesake was a collectivist hippy, but individuals managed to pervert the message into killing and raping innocent Muslims.
The present day tragedies of Islamic terrorism should come as no surprise given the violent message of their patron, the extreme oppression they've suffered at the hands of Christians and the dilution of authority across tens of millions of imams.