Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
This came up between me and some other Muslims in the Islam DIR, and you can't debate there, so I started this thread. I used to be a Muslim, a Shi'ite, and also a liberal-moderate. I basically disregarded some of the teachings in Islam because I saw them as outdated or not relevant to a Muslim living in western society. In other words, I didn't want my faith to be about trying to live like an Arab, when I don't live in an Arab country, and I'm not an Arab. It came up that I was a kuffar, even though I was a Muslim. So what do you think? If Islam says one thing, but science discovers something else, isn't the reasonable thing to do is to disregard Islam on the matter, it being 1400 years old, and accept what science says? That is what I would call a true moderate.