usermane: Islam getting blasted by the media? Quite to the contrary, no one hears about Islam nowadays. The headlines are no longer about Islamists or Islamophobes, they've been largely about Trump, his followers & the so called far right. In fact, until the recent rocket exchange between Palestine & Israel, everyone already forgotten about the Muslim world, at least in the English speaking world.
It is a very interesting thing. It shows how much the media is able to shift the masses' attention from one obsession to another.
Nevertheless, Islam does not have a good reputation with the media.
Empiree: I dont know the brother's view if he will care to explain further to you. Treason is punishable offense by capital punishment. This is universal law. No one can deny this. However, when someone renounces faith such as Islam, there is no earthly punishment. There is freedom of religion in the Quran "Let there be no compulsion in religion" Q256
Another verse of Quran confirms that some people renounce faith and return to Islam. They go back and forth. We have seen several evidences of this in our environment. If they have been killed for living Islam how would they return to Islam second time?. You can see it doesn't make sense.
Verily, those who believe, then disbelieve, then believe (again), and (again) disbelieve, and go on increasing in disbelief; Allah will not forgive them, nor guide them on the (Right) Way. 4:137
Where issue seems to be is, someone renounces faith in sharia country and then starts sayings things against Islam that is not true or that threatens peace, or that could potentially cause unrest in community such as what Christians did in Nigeria when they wrote several Books like.
"My case against Allah". "Muhammad had gonorrhea and HIV that's why Muslims perform ablution to plea against it"
Above books were not written by ex-Muslims but Christians. So if ex-Muslims start writing and saying stuff that contradict State religion, such may be subject to capital punishments. The same way you can not deny holocaust in Israel, you will be severely punishment if not death. Even at that, this practice faded. However the reason for saying "apostate is treason" dated back to Islamic history is bcus in the early days of Islam, when Muslims and pagans Arab and Jews were at war, Jews would side with Pagan Arabs and they came to Muslims to confess their faith in Islam (only for the purposes of espionage) and later divulge information to pagan Arabs and they ambushed and killed Muslims. When Muslims found out, it was said that prophet Muhammad said "whoever changes religion amongst (while on expedition) should be killed".
Obviously you can agree with this rule was meant to protect Muslims and it was restricted to war front only. This rule stands till today in every country. Just that it may not have religious undertone in modern Age. If you desert your fellow army in war it is treason. So i needed to clarify this to you. So if someone changes religion, according to Quran, he or she is free to do so based on ayah I quoted above. Quran stands in judgment over any other literature.
Judaism/Christianity
In the Hebrew Bible, apostasy is equated with rebellion against God, His Law, and and worshiping any god other than the Hebrew deity, Yahweh. The penalty for apostasy in Deuteronomy 13:1-10 is death.
In Christianity
Apostasy in Christianity began early in its history. Saint Paul started out his career attempting to influence Christians to apostatize from the new faith (Acts 8 ) and revert to orthodox Judaism. Later, when Christianity separated itself from Judaism, Jewish Christians who kept the Mosaic Law were considered either heretics or apostates.
In Christian tradition, apostates were to be shunned by other members of the church. Titus 3:10 indicates that an apostate or heretic needs to be "rejected after the first and second admonition." Hebrews 6:4-6 affirms the impossibility of those who have fallen away "to be brought back to repentance."
1. First, you are lying when you claim that Paul in the New Testament had anything to do with apostasy. The New Testament does not deal with apostasy. The Titus 3;10 you quoted is not about apostasy but about someone who is divisive. Futhermore, the divisive person is to be left alone and ignored, instead of facing punishment. STOP COPYING AN PASTING RUBBISH FROM YOUR ISLAMIC CLERICS.
2. Apostasy is apostasy. Stop bringing in other claims of treason and writing things against islam. Even at that, if one leaves islam and start promoting christianity, it should never result in a capital punishment.
No matter how you twist and turn, islam has become hypocritical because many islamic countries kill people just for leaving islam. Atheism is a crime in some muslim countries.
Empiree: you are not kiriyo but you side with that stupid religion. Who are you deceiving?. When you guys realized you are in the wrong that's when mist of you come up with this tactical approach.
As for Israel, see what I'm saying?. Just imagine if Israel is Muslim country would you have simply said "Israel is messing up big time" or you would have reigned curses on Islam and prophet Muhammad (SAW)?.
Call a spade a spade. Israel is a state terrorist country supported by evangelical Christian extremists.
I repeat, any Christian in Nigeria that supports Israel will never know peace. He or she will bury his or her children the way Adeboye buried his beloved son.
Israel is an apartheid state that is oppressing Palestine.
You have to pity the Nigerian christians who support isreal. Their ignorance is real. One was even saying that Israel owns all the land there!!!
This is the difference between you and I- I will say the truth, no matter what.
Buhari has totally destroyed the Nigerian economy. Yet, you are here talking nonsense about christianity destroying the Nigerian economy.
Pound Sterling was below 400 Naira before he entered. Today, it is 670 Naira Multinational countries have removed their African Headquarters from Nigeria to other African countries Instability with Boko Haram and herdsmen have destroyed businesses in the North. Companies that rely on forex have all closed down Corruption is at its highest. Nigerians cannot get passports Islamic terrorist sympathizers are now in government and backed by government.
Empiree you are a wicked muslim extremist. A dangerous madman.
You are posting the silly lie that christianity destroyed Nigeria's economy and you will tomorrow be complaining about islamophobes whilst being an anti-christian bigot.
felixnkubi: nna mehn, imdb people dey mad, i was expecting jupiter legacy to be interesting but the show wack sha, special effects rubbish, cgi is crap, costume be like say na power rangers i dey watch! upon all the money wey netflix get! the story seems quite good but they for kuku just make am family drama without the hero stuff... after invincible, every other superhero show look like sh*t in my eyes, they raised the bar with that show
Tolu181: I wanted to stop watching JUPITER'S LEGACY cause of the low budget effect but as the minutes went on, i find the story and some of the character interesting... So i will continue.
Let's see how it ends
Finished it earlier today.
Yeah, the budget for effects is low but the plot is interesting.
nkiliuzo: this anime is demonic, there's no difference between this and hentai. the most vexing part is how the show is trying to make healing magic OP in a stupid way... and the rape mehn.. my gawd
Jashub: It is better to be a Christian than to be a atheist that stands for nothing other than confusion.
It is a recorded fact that atheist have never contributed to human development, rather, they have been the caused of some horrendous killings in human history. Take communist China and former Soviet union for example: Mao and Satalin single-handedly order for the execution of more than 100million of their own people. This number far outweighs any form of human eradication perpetrated by all religions put together.
Another thing to point out is atheist do not have a sense of morality to claim as a standard to support their belief system. Till date, no human code of conduct is founded on atheism rather, they are founded on Christian religious doctrines. Which makes one wonder if Athesim really has any value at all to mankind.
Atheism has contributed absolutely nothing to mankind in terms of development and moral standards. Rather, they have been the cause of some very disturbing ways of thinking. For example, atheists believe we exist by accident ; that everything in the universe is a cosmcosmological mixing of random stuff that gave rise to an ordered universe. This style of reasoning is not only illogical, but it smells of complete stupidity
The irony here is that you have spouted so much ignorance about atheism that you have become the morally depraved character that you are out against.
1. First of all, christianity alone has done much damage to the world more than any other belief or non belief. They were pioneers in many forms of torture (see catholic treatment of heretics). They were pioneers of large scale warfare- see the crusades. Furthermore, Hitler was not an atheist- he believed in some sort of Aryan christian God. Also, Stalin, despite being an atheist, was a product of harsh christian treatment from the repression when he attended a seminary.
2. Atheists have contributed a lot to science and technology. Most scientists in the west are atheists or agnostics. Steve Jobs is an atheist while Bill gate is a deist. Zuckerberg was an atheist but now religious.
3. I am an atheist and I do not believe that we came by accident. What I believe is that we dont know the origin of life. That is a fact. Nobody knows