Oh, I'm not arguing that that isn't a true Scotsmen fallacy, I'm just telling you what the book says.
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Yes, you do adapt it in that way. You can acknowledge that it was a product of its time and focus on the other aspects of the text that stand up to modern morality.
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Yeah I'll give you that, what I should have said was "most Muslims in the middle east do not adapt it in that way". They just take it as it is, and I'm saying that as it is, it's a reprehensible piece of garbage.
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I’m not denying what it says, I’m pointing out that followers are free to interpret it how they choose.
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They are, but the ones doing all the worst shit are not doing that, they are, like I said, taking it at face value.