How to Trust a moderate Muslim?

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Originally Posted by Lurikeen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You say "The fact of the matter is, in early days of Christianity, most OT lifestyle laws were unpalatable to Europeans and were thrown out." What are you talking about? Most of the "OT lifestyle laws were unpalatable" to the rest of the world. You seem to be thinking you're making a good point, but you're not. You're actually making my earlier point for me.

Many of the essential elements of early Christianity did not make it 500 years after Christ's death, and many more didn't make it 1000. The "laws" of Christianity that were accepted differed by each region and culture. You're saying OT laws were rejected on theological grounds, I'm saying the reasons were cultural first. That's it. People didn't immediately reject OT laws because they were intended for Hebrews, and again, some OT accounts, such as the creation mythos, persisted. Even today you have people quoting Leviticus and Genesis to justify intolerance for homosexuals, including the Catholic Church (which manages the theology of over a billion Christians), and OT thematic elements are still a huge part of Christian identities even though it's a book about a hateful genocidal maniac.

This is an important observation because it gives us insight into the way religions and denominations involve in the first place, which gets back to the original point of my input into this discussion: Christianity tends to react differently to the passage of time than Islam does.