Mariner
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sounding like playground here at recess.
Here's what you wrote, LuvRPgirl:
"The Koran is a bunch of BS. Written by ONE MAN, who supposedly had a revelation. What reason is there to believe it? Now, the accounts of Jesus had MANY witnesses, even Peter who was willing to be crucified himself before denying it.
The Koran was written by a man who married an older lady for money, was a pedophile and a war monger.
Also, I think its symbolic that the symbol of Islam is a lie also. Its the crescent moon with a star behind it. We all now know that scene cant happen in nature. I think its symbolic of the lie that Islam is, its a religion of the devil."
This is a complete distortion. Muhammad was a pacifist. Why not pick up a good book about world religion? Where do you get the idea he was a pedophile? He did not care about money--this is also clearly known. His religion required that wealthy people give 10% of their annual profits to the poor. As for all the witnesses who prove to you that Christianity is the only possible correct religion--well, most of the Bible was written well after the fact. If I told you that my religion was "proved" by something a few people said they saw, that was written down 200 years later, that would convince you? Why is it more convincing to you if several different people wrote down the Bible than if one man wrote the Koran? I don't see the difference. Makes me curious what you think of Joseph Smith and Mormonism.
As for the Islamic symbol--one might see it as a "lie" or one might see it as a statement that what may seem paradoxical can be true. Or it might just be a nice visual design. One might respond by saying that Christians, rather strangely, venerate a torture device, and hang it around their necks.
Hinduism doesn't make demands such as God's of Abraham. That was why I asked the original question. Hinduism asks us all to know ourselves as deeply as we can, and to seek to see that we are both separate--reponsible for ourselves--and connected to the web not only of people but of all animals and things (one reason we don't eat animals).
You mentioned my wife. She's a practicing Catholic. So I'm clearly not asking my question in an anti-Christian manner, and you don't have to get all riled up.
Besides, I assume "RP" means Republican Party? The official RP line right now is that Islam is a great world religion, and that extremists do not speak for Muslims everywhere any more than Christian extremists, e.g. those willing to murder abortion providers, speak for all Christians.
Mariner.
Here's what you wrote, LuvRPgirl:
"The Koran is a bunch of BS. Written by ONE MAN, who supposedly had a revelation. What reason is there to believe it? Now, the accounts of Jesus had MANY witnesses, even Peter who was willing to be crucified himself before denying it.
The Koran was written by a man who married an older lady for money, was a pedophile and a war monger.
Also, I think its symbolic that the symbol of Islam is a lie also. Its the crescent moon with a star behind it. We all now know that scene cant happen in nature. I think its symbolic of the lie that Islam is, its a religion of the devil."
This is a complete distortion. Muhammad was a pacifist. Why not pick up a good book about world religion? Where do you get the idea he was a pedophile? He did not care about money--this is also clearly known. His religion required that wealthy people give 10% of their annual profits to the poor. As for all the witnesses who prove to you that Christianity is the only possible correct religion--well, most of the Bible was written well after the fact. If I told you that my religion was "proved" by something a few people said they saw, that was written down 200 years later, that would convince you? Why is it more convincing to you if several different people wrote down the Bible than if one man wrote the Koran? I don't see the difference. Makes me curious what you think of Joseph Smith and Mormonism.
As for the Islamic symbol--one might see it as a "lie" or one might see it as a statement that what may seem paradoxical can be true. Or it might just be a nice visual design. One might respond by saying that Christians, rather strangely, venerate a torture device, and hang it around their necks.
Hinduism doesn't make demands such as God's of Abraham. That was why I asked the original question. Hinduism asks us all to know ourselves as deeply as we can, and to seek to see that we are both separate--reponsible for ourselves--and connected to the web not only of people but of all animals and things (one reason we don't eat animals).
You mentioned my wife. She's a practicing Catholic. So I'm clearly not asking my question in an anti-Christian manner, and you don't have to get all riled up.
Besides, I assume "RP" means Republican Party? The official RP line right now is that Islam is a great world religion, and that extremists do not speak for Muslims everywhere any more than Christian extremists, e.g. those willing to murder abortion providers, speak for all Christians.
Mariner.