I think if you ask the average Christian if the Bible is the direct, divine, and immutable word of God they would say "YES!". It is assumed that the Old Testament had numerous authors and the apostles wrote the New Testament (some will say no to this too) BUT they were being directly spoken to or inspired by the one and only God. HE wrote the texts through them. Those texts are divine, immutable, and direct. If you asked the average believer if they thought that the Bible was the "flawed word of God as interpreted by humans" they would not agree.

Being agnostic, you don't believe that (I'm not going to assume to know anything else about what you may or may not believe) but they do. And that's what matters in this situation. No.. they may not beat their wives anymore or smash them over the head with rocks if they had premarital sex but it SAYS to in the book. Just as it says to in the Islamic books. Christians and Jews have simply chosen to ignore those parts (I know I am repeating it for the millionth time). They had a lapse in which a more rational voice was able to come forth and say "hey! no more stonings!" but Islam has not had that lapse. Again. My point. Don't sit around saying "barbarians!" towards another religion for following it's doctrine strictly when your own holy book says for you to do the exact same things and you are simply hypocritical in ignoring the parts you don't like anymore.

It's wrong because it's wrong. Their religion is as barbaric as Christianity or Judaism. Modern Christians and Jews are just omitting certain parts of theirs. Islam does not.

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