I did not start Tell Me About Islam. I defended my religion and clarified distortions you & others made. The new threads are to expose the outright lies you and others said about Islam. Since you published info about Islam, I have posted info about Christianity. Whats fair is fair. |
Same here and it takes a special kind of person to live it and teach it, whether the son of God or not. He's worth following. A solider -- not so much. |
One thing I always found amusing about the dawwah crowd is their assumption that every white person they see is necessarily Christian. It always starts with "Ah sister but you see, you are putting up a man as god blah blah". It gives me special pleasure to inform them I don't give a damn about either. If Christianity is wrong, it doesn't make Islam wrong. These two aren't the only options on the menu, ya know. |
People in muslim countries tend to assume white =christian but with the internet and in the US inter racial marriages, this is less true. I am Muslim and dark complected but my child is white. |
That's true but what I meant was that a white person can be non-religious as often as Christian. Selling Islam as a better choice than Christianity is dumb because one may not be Christian to begin with. Plus there's lots of white Muslims out there. A whole lot. Sham, Balkans, Caucasus etc. |
Even some Christians don't believe in the trinity. |
ITA. Of course a Muslim does not believe in the trinity! Neither do Jews! |
+1. As that Dirks piece even points out, Harvard has been showing these early Christian-era documents (gnostic, contemporaneous jewish and various sects of the early Christian era) to seminarians for the last 20-30 years at least. It's not like this is anything new. These early Christian-era documents have been around for about 1900 years now, and many protestant catholic seminaries in the country teach them, as part of teaching how various doctrines like the trinity evolved. In fact, if these other documents are so persuasive, why did only one single Harvard seminarian see these documents and then convert to Islam 20 years later? Consider that thousands of other Harvard seminarians saw these documents and never converted to Islam. If you think Harvard is so great, then you won't be wowed by a ratio of 1 convert to Islam / 10,000 (or whatever) Harvard seminarians. I have no doubt that many of these thousands of Harvard seminarians came out wondering about the Trinity. But only one converted to Islam. Put me down in the "don't care" camp. I like Jesus' message better than other messages. I'm not converting to Islam because OP posted some link about one Harvard seminarian. |
| The truth is that it just doesn't matter. Ever looked up and pointed to the moon? All fingers point to that same moon. |
Have you seen the link of the interview with Dr. Dirks? He answers this question quite succinctly in that piece. |
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Its better for those who want an answer to that question to simply view the link. Post Dr. Dirks answer here and the islam haters will react like a shark smelling blood. Its evident he is an intellectual and well read. He is a soft spoken man. He said he felt like he was betraying his congregation standing up on the pulpit after he read the original manuscripts. He says these documents are not seen by everyone, but very good seminary schools will have them. He was lucky enough to attend Harvard.
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Why "follow" any one person? especially a figure from 2,000 years that we don't know much about? Jesus has some good ideas, but so did Buddha and lots of other people since. Why not follow good teaching, no matter where it come from, instead of an ancient person who some claimed to be the "Son of God?" |
Whoa - Harvard! would we be impressed? Should we assume that what he says can be trusted??? |
Is this like the only supersecret authentic ahadith collection that has still not been released into the world? |
No one is going all shark on him. He's entitled to his opinion, just like everyone else. I sense that you're expecting that his conversion will shatter minds, and it is simply not a factor that you hoped it would be. Someone converted. So what? |