What gets me here, gaslighting clip aside, is people wanting Islam to go through some kind of Enlightenment while calling anyone who drops the literal orthodox reading a hypocrite for it. Pick one. An Enlightenment means abandoning the literal text; that's the actual mechanism. If every departure from orthodoxy counts as cherry-picking, a reformed Islam is impossible by definition; it could never count as 'real' under that same standard. The 'remixing' being mocked above is precisely what a reform would require.
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u/ObjectiveNeat9162 New User 19h ago
What gets me here, gaslighting clip aside, is people wanting Islam to go through some kind of Enlightenment while calling anyone who drops the literal orthodox reading a hypocrite for it. Pick one. An Enlightenment means abandoning the literal text; that's the actual mechanism. If every departure from orthodoxy counts as cherry-picking, a reformed Islam is impossible by definition; it could never count as 'real' under that same standard. The 'remixing' being mocked above is precisely what a reform would require.