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Is this not a self-defeating statement? Humans aren't that intelligent, in the grand scheme of things; surely it is not hard for the Almighty to write a foolproof book?
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Humans have always written books that they claim is the word of God. Surely you know that if humans write something there is subjectivity and bias in there. Therefore anything written by humans is indeed non objective.
Human No More. You just don't get why I put this thread up. Ashen Key does but you just try time and time again to counter the link I put up with more and more arguments. Seems like you didn't notice but I didn't put this thread in the debate thread. This was just an interesting site I found from my local newspaper and the site had some interesting information that opened my eyed and I decided to share it with people. You can't see that though can you and I'm not going to argue with you any more, no one really can.Another thing. How can I recruit people if I'm not part of the said religion? I'm not even part of any mainstream religion.
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There are good quaran followers and bad quaran followers. The good ones should not be punished because of what the bad ones have done.
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"Pardon me, I wanna live in a fantasy" "I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on" It seems like everybody is moving forward. As if there is some final goal they can achieve and get to. I don't get it though. When I look around, it seems like I'm already there, and there is nothing left to do. "You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see." I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land I know I was born and I know that I'll die; The in between is mine." |
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Well, if that's actually a problem, (which IMO it isn't) why doesn't He just write the book Himself?
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Because there is already a book out here, and He is not about to waste His time coming down to make another one?
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Besides, it was mentioned earlier the existing book is flawed.
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Not in the eyes of most of the religious population, it isn't. And anyway, you'd think God might have more pressing matters then rewriting a book, right? He has the universe to deal with.
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What if God has no hands? hehe
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That's assuming he owes you a book, or you deserve to have a book written for you. According to most mainstream religions, we deserve nothing but death and suffering, because we, in our own free will, turned away from G/god.
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"Pardon me, I wanna live in a fantasy" "I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on" It seems like everybody is moving forward. As if there is some final goal they can achieve and get to. I don't get it though. When I look around, it seems like I'm already there, and there is nothing left to do. "You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see." I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land I know I was born and I know that I'll die; The in between is mine." |
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As was said previously- This is *not* in the debate section.
Cease any arguments or infractions will be given. Thank you. EDIT: This also applies to those indirectly insulting, or sarcastically insulting.
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Cheers Mune.
I set up this thread because I wanted to share a link with you that I found to be really interesting.. That is all.
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All Islam needs is a little more liberalisation, just as Christianity has. That's difficult though when Islam's power base is centred in an area of low resources, people turn to faith and many are led to extremism.
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Could happen.
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There's a fair share of Christian extremism as well, but you're right, in Islam, it is definitely made worse by the low resources and lack of sufficient government intervention.
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Not to mention that the religion itself is reacting against decades of colonialism and cultural pressure. Of COURSE things are going to get messy while they try and sort things out. Christianity had their Reformation go on in the 1500s and more, and that was REALLY messy. And oh, yes, Christianity has its own extremism. And they can be violent, too - they just don't tend to blow people up. But no one has invaded their countries, so.
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