Sunday, July 18, 2010

Use of Change-Agents to Change Infallible Rules

Regarding our radical fundamentalist Islam problem with the Koran being "perfect." you mentioned that this will remain a problem until some way is found to make it not "infallible" to Islamists. I dunno how that can happen -- how can they fix the Islamic 'Trilogy when it is already perfect???

Lately I have been thinking about "change agents." Change agent -- what is that, one might ask? Well, let me explain via a play I watched several years back over in CA. The play was called "Sound of the Greasepaint and Smell of the Crowd," or something like that...

Anyway the play was about a game-master controlling a game-player. If the player began to win, the game master would change the rules. The game-player never had a chance. Nothing could be done. Nothing, that is until an external game-changer came into being who was able to over-ride the game-master and incorporate new rules that were fair and just for all. I saw this in action when I was chair of a department. The good ol' boys were in charge and there wasn't anything that I could do to change the situation. Until a game-changer came into play (an external administrator at the school).

Now, I bring this up because Jesus Christ can be viewed as a game-changer to change the old Mosaic laws from the Old-Testament, to Christ's new way of "love your enemy" in the New Testament. Perhaps a game-changer can come along for Islam and cause it to play by a modern set of rules that are fair and just for all, like other modern religions. Just a thought...

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