Reply to So which holy book do peaceful Muslims follow?

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "So which holy book do peaceful Muslims follow?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]corrected the formatting

[quote]Many atheists are more knowledgeable about religion b/c they were raised in a faith that they questioned.  So they did their research and found the flaws, which is all very logical.  I'd rather speak to someone who's smart enough to read a book while analyzing the context of the time period during which it was written.  [/quote]

[quote]Too bad that's not true on DCUM. Many of you atheists (not all! there are some thoughtful atheists here!) demonstrate on a daily basis that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. Not one single clue what you're talking about, and it comes out daily--sometimes hourly--that many of you are appalingly ignorant about the religions you criticize. I'm not talking about accepting stuff as "true" or not, but more like your ignorance of the most basic facts of which tenets the different religions follow.

Some of you are clearly going, not on logic, but on emotions and gut hatreds.

Yuck.[/quote]

Religious tenets are not facts.  Atheists argue using facts.  There are contradictions in the bible - fact.  Virgins - w/o medical technology - cannot have babies - fact.  There is no scientific evidence to prove Christ was resurrected.  There's little evidence - outside of the bible - that proves Christ even existed.  And there are many pagan stories that mirror Christ's - fact.

facts versus beliefs

How different is a belief in the Greek gods?  It's all the same.  Furthermore, we study [b]Greek myths in literature courses in order to understand how they play a role in allusions.  same can be said for the bible - literary references[/b]

[b]Herodotus himself claims Greek gods were taken from the Egyptians.  [/b]

When you don't have the scientific measures to understand your world, you create stories.  These stories from different cultures share common threads.  Jesus is no different.

and yuck?  What kind of mature response is that?  You claim atheists are ignorant, yet you respond with "yuck."  [/quote]

These statements are superficial.  We don't study Greek myths to understand allusions.  Allusions to Greek myths appear in literature because they provide insight into the human condition and are a kind of shorthand for those insights.  The myths also provide information on the thought and cultural mores of an ancient civilization which provides the foundation for western culture and learning.  Similar insights are true of the Bible, whether one believes the stories or not.

Can't get the point about Herodotus.  So what if the Greeks borrowed gods from the Egyptians?  But scholars in any case do not agree with his premise--the nature of ancient polytheism s to attribute a god to major natural manifestations like the sun, moon, and the wind or to important cultural values like fertility or war, so one would expect some similarities among gods.  And Demeter has way more in common with Inanna/Ishtar than with any Egyptian god or goddess.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics