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Calling Islam What It Really Is. A Cult [W:407]

Sherman123 said:
I'm with you except for this bit. I think it makes perfect sense to acknowledge that some cults are more damaging to society than others. For instance I'm perfectly willing to make the claim that Anglicanism is far less worrisome then most branches of Sunni Islam.
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Today, sure. In the past, not so much. Of course, Islam is entirely harmless in most western countries where secular society neuters them just as much as it does Christianity. Outside of secular society, Christians are just as much animals as Muslims. It's religion that makes them bad, it's secular society that keeps them under control.
 
Sherman123 said:
I'm with you except for this bit. I think it makes perfect sense to acknowledge that some cults are more damaging to society than others. For instance I'm perfectly willing to make the claim that Anglicanism is far less worrisome then most branches of Sunni Islam.
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Nowadays the worst things that the Anglicans do to you is serve cucumber sandwiches that are too thick.
 
RAMOSS said:
I would say 'that is it possible, and maybe even likely to have been a real person'. However, the evidence is weak at best. There is a good possibility that the 'historical Jesus' that inspired the 'Magic Jesus" as you call him might have been a composite of several people.
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Don't conjuring tricks and illusions come under the heading of magic?
 
zyzygy said:
Don't conjuring tricks and illusions come under the heading of magic?
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Yes, those are the stories. I call it 'The Jesus of the New Testament'
 
Haven't traipsed through all 43 pages of this thread as I have a life, so apologies if this point's already been made.

I find it pertinent that in certain languages such as French, all religions are referred to as cults: le culte catholique, le culte musulman, le culte hindou etc. I think that's spot on.
 
RAMOSS said:
There is a good possibility that the 'historical Jesus' that inspired the 'Magic Jesus" as you call him might have been a composite of several people.
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Let's see your first century evidence for that gigantic leap?

(liberals LOVE their half-baked theories)
 
Logicman said:
That's what I thought. It was just another hot air blast from left field.
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Ah. I see. You can't. You reply with a diversion and an insult.
 
RAMOSS said:
Ah. I see. You can't. You reply with a diversion and an insult.
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You do it to yourself when you come up with these pie-in-the-sky claims that you can't back up:

RAMOSS: "There is a good possibility that the 'historical Jesus' that inspired the 'Magic Jesus" as you call him might have been a composite of several people."
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"good possibility"? LOL!

You've got three chances of that one working out: A slim chance, a fat chance, and no chance.
 
Moderator's Warning:
Things the topic is not about:

1. Liberals
2. Jesus

Get on topic or action will be taken
 
Regarding violence, Christianity wins (historically) on body count and Judaism has the craziest homicidal maniac with Joshua who Talmudic Jews view as virtuous. I can't judge the Quran itself since I can't tolerate reading it, but I think Islam is well justified in taking violent action against the West which has abused it for quite some time.
 
fschmidt said:
Regarding violence, Christianity wins (historically) on body count and Judaism has the craziest homicidal maniac with Joshua who Talmudic Jews view as virtuous. I can't judge the Quran itself since I can't tolerate reading it, but I think Islam is well justified in taking violent action against the West which has abused it for quite some time.
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Violent action against invading armies is justified. Blowing up civillians who are not part of the fight not so much.
 
fschmidt said:
Both. The result is the same.
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Big difference between blowing up a market on purpose and a stray bomb accidentally falling on a wedding party.
 
The victims are just as dead, and surviving relatives hate the bombers just as much.
 
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