>>17868620Oh yeah? Ok.
>1/ It relies on a message from a spirit that is never confirmed to be from God. First of all, while Jibril was the main messanger of Muhammad from Allah, the Quran recounts there were other forms of prophetic transmission. Including Allah speaking personally to Muhammad a few times. The Quran recounts this was Allah. If you question the validity of the Quran, you also indirectly raise doubt on the validity of all previous prophets and testimonies about them.
>2/ In every one of its teachings it behaves as a dumbed down version of Christianity.This presumes Christianity is true because it unjustly deems many doctrines that stand by themselves to be "Dumbed down versions" of Christianity, this assigns Christianity a higher position than Islam in an undisclosed hierarchy, you are being, so to speak, Christo-centric. The same could very much be said in the reverse order. It's also a completely false statement.
>3/ Its role model is hardly a model at all beyond his own time.Here you presume the following
>In the universe there is an objective immutable standard of what a good role model is.>I hold knowledge of that standard.>That standard fits all my personal and cultural mores, ethics, and values.>I can accurately measure things against that standard.Because you are a Christian, and where presumably raised within a Christian cultural environment. You are presuming the values of (modern) Christians are true.
>4/ It proposes that Christians considered Mary to be a deity.Only if you read the passage in the most literal way possible. When it could be a rhetorical device to highlight the unusual treatment Mary got and still gets in Chirstianity.
>This is tenable if and only if we completely disregard Christian theologyThis is largely irrelevant from a muslim standpoint. (Which I'm not, btw, though you should've been able to tell by the fact I don't use the retarded acronyms)