{"id":744,"date":"2020-04-13T02:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T02:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=744"},"modified":"2020-04-13T02:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T02:35:03","slug":"social-justice-in-islam-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/04\/13\/social-justice-in-islam-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice in Islam Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I thought the recent Social Justice in Islam paper reading was an interesting piece for our class. I liked the comparisons that the writer made between Christianity and Islam. For many of us, Christianity is a faith that we are much more familiar with than certain aspects of Islam. I thought it was nice to have a credible breakdown of the two faiths that could be referenced in discussion. <br \/>My biggest takeaway from the article was the separation of life and the afterlife. Based on the reading, the Islamic faith doesn&#8217;t create a division between life and the afterlife. It also urges followers to not disregard life on earth in hopes of a better afterlife. This idea largely contrast with ideas of Christianity which puts a heavy emphasis on leading a virtuous life on Earth so that the afterlife can be even better.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the recent Social Justice in Islam paper reading was an interesting piece for our class. I liked the comparisons that the writer made between Christianity and Islam. For many of us, Christianity is a faith that we are much more familiar with than certain aspects of Islam. I thought it was nice to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}