Akram's Razor
Posted some reflections to Religion Dispatches on the notion of Hell and rightwing conspiracy theories inspired by the "Left Behind" films, which I watched last weekend.
Religion Dispatches – Blessed Be the Warmakers
I finally got around to watching the Left Behind films. While I as a Muslim and a liberal didn’t expect them to be my cup of tea, I was nonetheless surprised and disturbed by their content. I must confess to finding its dispensationalism scripturally and intellectually suspect, but the films’ theology is not what disturbed me the most. It’s rather their cheerful, “Dr. No”-esque vision of global conflict and the way the particulars of the films implicitly endorse a welter of fringe ideologies and conspiracy theories that give me pause.
While the consensus among Muslim scholars historically seems to have been that an everlasting punishment awaits those who reject God’s message as disclosed in the Quran and in Muhammad’s life, there has always been a minority that argued forcefully against this position using Quran and Hadith.
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