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What is wrong with smashing the idols?

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
This is one idol that was smashed for decades but remains standing to this very day!

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Better living through chemistry.
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
In freedom loving countries, personal property is protected by law. Most churches or temples, under law, are no different than private property. Destruction of idols is punishable. So people who promote it ought to be on a 'watch list', and this forum is not immune to that.
Lives are also protected by law, and one cannot legally kill (or take property) without due process of law.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
IF you have every wondered why many people think that Islam is inherently violent you might want to read your own quote several dozen times so the point can sink in. People need look no further than this, really. In contrast, it is alleged that Jesus flipped over a table in a temple when he was having a bad hair day. See the difference?
Destroying what is sacred to others is thoroughly disgusting
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Where the idols of polytheists not at war with the Prophet destroyed in early Islam? Egypt is largely Muslim and yet the Sphynx, pharoah's tombs etc still stand.
I won't destroy the idols of peace loving and peaceful living polytheists. I find no such commandment in Quran to destroy the idols of others. Quran even forbids to rebuke others' idols/gods, not to speak of destroying them.

Verse (6:108)


Sahih International: And do not insult those they invoke other than Allah , lest they insult Allah in enmity without knowledge. Thus We have made pleasing to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them about what they used to do.
The Quranic Arabic Corpus - Word by Word Grammar, Syntax and Morphology of the Holy Quran

Quran honors and protects the worship places of all religions, and allows freedom of religion and freedom of speech in most unequivocal terms, no other religion, to my knowledge does it:
Verse (22:40)
The analysis above refers to the 40th verse of chapter 22 (sūrat l-ḥaj):



Sahih International: [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right - only because they say, "Our Lord is Allah." And were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned. And Allah will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might.
The Quranic Arabic Corpus - Word by Word Grammar, Syntax and Morphology of the Holy Quran

Muhammd fought for the human rights of the people .
Please
Regards
 

EmperorSwordMan

A Fantasy turned Real
What's wrong with burning the Quran? It's just a dumb book with pages with gibberish writing talking about some pedophilic warlord in the middle of the desert. I had friends who did it, I didn't care.

That statement was equal to what you just asked.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Prophet Luqmaan once said to his son "O my son, do not set up any idols beside God; idolatry is a gross injustice."
Idolatry may or may not be wrong. To some degree that is a matter of opinion, of personal preference even.

However, there is hardly any moral ground to speak of when one decides to destroy someone else's objects of religious significance.

There is also a practical problem: if you feel entitled to destroy some else's religious statues, there will be no grounds to object if someone decides that the world is better off without your own Qur'ans, Mosques and Madrassas.

Unless you are willing to bet that people will feel so grateful for your decision to disrespect their beliefs that they will immediately sympathise with your perspective and forgive you completely? I would advise you not to do such a thing. You are bound to cause a lot of suffering to yourself and others, for no good reason whatsoever.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Rio, Brazil... what difference does it make? Big deal they are large countries sharing a tiny border region. Plus some Brazilians probably know some Argentinians... so that's close enough. :rolleyes:
Well, sure. If we are already conceding that the Redeemer statue "must" be destroyed, why even care to distinguish Rio from Brazil or Argentina? At that point we have no time for accuracy or even truth anyway.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
That Christ the Redeemer statue is technically not an idol. I don't think people are convinced the statue is God
 
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