The Benchmarks

My own theological benchmarks from which to judge and characterize Islam is prevented as follows in simple, clear ideas, as tests.

TEST I: God is a moderate, and loving. Satan is a fanatic and a hater. Islam, as a faith comes across to me as filled with haters and fanaticism. Therefore, it must be purged of these wicked elements, before it can be an updated, modern religion that does not threaten global peace and security.

I heard that Muslims believe that Allah is all-perfect, all-knowing and all-loving. I believe that Fate is all-knowing and no-knowing, all-loving and all-hating, wholly perfect and wholly imperfect, all-powerful and all-powerless.

God is mostly perfect, mostly all-knowing, mostly all-loving and mostly all-powerful, but not completely so in any of the four listed categories. God's imperfections and limits are what allow God to relate to us flawed mortals; our common natures endears us to De.

Test II: Mohammed is regarded as perfect in all ways, and to criticize or reject Muhammed is to deserve death for denigrating this perfect human being. I am a prophet of God, and I am extremely flawed, and none will ever ascribe to me perfect qualities or perfect actions.  If Mohammed beheaded infidels and enemies as is attested to, then he was not a perfect man. Because this prophet is flawed and open to criticism, then the faith is open to criticism and revision, to modernize it, and shed its savage features.

Test III: Islam is a faith of joiners, and in my theology joiners  or group-livers follow Satan, and loners or individualists follow God. Therefore, there is much evil built into Islam that this faith needs purging of by a loss of followers abandoning this faith of group-living.

Test IV: There must be separation of church and state, for God to bless and guide a nation. Nations of Islam, especially under shariah law, where theological and mutual offenses are mingled together in courts of law, there Satan reigns. These nations must establish separation of church and state, for, in decentralizing power, God then can come and live among the people, help run their government, and bless their entire enterprise.

Once people come to understand and accept that their traditional religion is flawed, and replaceable, they come down to earth and modernize their faiths, renewing it in the process.

An imperfect faith, like Islam, thus is updated and saved by being rejuvenated and hybridized.