Congratulations, you took a quote completely out of context. I bet you feel smart thinking you can quote and interpret a religion's scripture you know absolutely nothing about. The whole men can marry up to four wives thing is not an order or even a right that Muslim men can enjoy. Polygamy was quite rampant in the pre-Islamic days. This line's purpose was to assuage those who were still intent on following the old custom of polygamy, but it added a caveat so as also to be fair. The second half of the line says that you have to be fair to each wife, but that no man is capable of doing so. Thus while you are technically allowed to marry up to four women, no man will be able to treat each one of them equally, and thus, no man will be allowed to marry more than a single woman. It's a catch-22, quite clever if you ask me.
Lol reminds me of how when in Purim (Jewish holiday where dressing up is common) I dressed up as a roman, and everyone kept asking me if I dressed up as a Bedouin.
iritegood: I kinda disagree with you. It's not that religions are not the problem - they are. Things like polygamy really are okay according to the religious text. It's just that some/most people choose to reject the religious text and adopt a watered-down version of the religion. This pushes the religion into the public consciousness and makes it accessible to those who will follow the religion more literally.So if we didn't have these religions or we didn't have so many people willing to promote a religion they don't really agree with, we wouldn't have the religious nut jobs. But these nut jobs would probably go and be nutty in some other way, so this is not the be-all end-all answer to saving the world.
kashk5Oct 25, 2008
Congratulations, you took a quote completely out of context. I bet you feel smart thinking you can quote and interpret a religion's scripture you know absolutely nothing about. The whole men can marry up to four wives thing is not an order or even a right that Muslim men can enjoy. Polygamy was quite rampant in the pre-Islamic days. This line's purpose was to assuage those who were still intent on following the old custom of polygamy, but it added a caveat so as also to be fair. The second half of the line says that you have to be fair to each wife, but that no man is capable of doing so. Thus while you are technically allowed to marry up to four women, no man will be able to treat each one of them equally, and thus, no man will be allowed to marry more than a single woman. It's a catch-22, quite clever if you ask me.
sublexOct 25, 2008
Dr McNinja!
urik88Oct 25, 2008
Lol reminds me of how when in Purim (Jewish holiday where dressing up is common) I dressed up as a roman, and everyone kept asking me if I dressed up as a Bedouin.
Closed AccountOct 26, 2008
iritegood: I kinda disagree with you. It's not that religions are not the problem - they are. Things like polygamy really are okay according to the religious text. It's just that some/most people choose to reject the religious text and adopt a watered-down version of the religion. This pushes the religion into the public consciousness and makes it accessible to those who will follow the religion more literally.So if we didn't have these religions or we didn't have so many people willing to promote a religion they don't really agree with, we wouldn't have the religious nut jobs. But these nut jobs would probably go and be nutty in some other way, so this is not the be-all end-all answer to saving the world.
maxpowaOct 27, 2008
I don't get it.