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I am going entirely from memory, but I do know that alcohol was fine until followers of Mohammad started coming to prayers intoxicated on a regular basis. Some of them stumbled to prayer while others didn't even make it. Mohammad got really mad about this and sought a solution. The solution...

Exactly what does 'allowing them to be themselves' really mean? I do believe that the parents are the main problem in this child's acting out this idea.

originally posted by Samoss That is because he wasn't according to the Qu'ran and hadiths. Moses ministered to foreigners, those other than the Israelites. This creates a dilemma for the you since his ministry, in some part, went outside of the classical held belief that each prophet went...

How well have you investigated this story?

So, how would you explain this incident from the perspective of Buddhism? Who or what would be at fault?

Arthra's response to GeorgeTwo: Son of man as used in relation to Jesus and son of a relative (Mary, for example) are not the same; therefore, your opinion is missing the point. son of man is very generic when referring to a human being or humanity as a whole. Son of Mary, for example...

Hi, amorly. This is a nice piece of propaganda. I have seen this, if not ver batum, at least 100 times. This piece is heavily flawed; but, I don't know if I want to try to refute it since it is quite long and will require a lot of explanations. Perhaps I will attempt to address a few of the...

That does make coexisting peacefully very difficult if not impossible.

The purpose of Jesus in Islam is to polemicize against the historical Jesus found in the Bible, the primary source. Jesus never does anything else in the Qu'ran but make claims that mostly contradict the Bible. It is a useful tool to deceive people into thinking that since Jesus is also...

originally posted by steve_bakr I would hope that you would realize that they have different authors. That is easy to explain since Mohammad had some kind of contact with Jews and Christians; so, he could know certain things, even if not correctly. The problem with making parallels is that...

This is starting to become comical. The objective was not to do comparative religions. Even doing that will lead us to the differences. Anyone who is intellectually and rational minded will have to still face these differences if they want to be objective about what they read. Those differences...

Rationalt, I started to provide context but thought to just keep it simple. Thanks for bring out context.

originally posted by Drunk On Love Restricted means that love is conditional upon Allah's will and a Muslim's behavior towards Allah. Allah doesn't love until someone does something that Allah likes. As soon as he does wrong, Allah abandons him because he doesn't love him anymore. This is...

It was you who didn't understand what was being said. I simply corrected you; so, why address it to me? Did I make a comment that stated that I had this idea or position? Since you mentioned: why should we have to talk about things that we have in common? Why can't we talk about things that...

You are not understanding the problem here. We question something about Islam. Then we get others pointing out the same or similar issues with Christianity as if the topic is Christianity. I find it quite amusing that we can't discuss Islam without people running interference and hindering us...

That only works if the traditions are not reliable. You assume that one can't know that. You forget about people that keep historical records about those traditions. Accurate traditions also help to preserve the present by appealing to the past. You present a very negative and naive view, IMO.

What would be sex-positive? Then I may be able to comment.

Because that would give you lots of leeway to reject most of what we explain to you from the hadiths. We would have less defense against your polemics. Well, I guess your prayer won't be answered since we do use them, especially those that got the seal of approval from early generation Muslims...

originally posted by smaneck Please put words into my mouth at any opportunity. I am speaking of captives and captors. You know that! Stick to the topic. That wasn't my logic at all. Capturing someone and having sex with them, especially a short time after being captured and with their husband...

From reading the Qu'ran and hadiths. It is very basic Islamic dogma. The historical context for Mohammad promising earthly pleasures in heaven for dying and instant entrance into heaven for dying a martyr was to motivate them to fight and not worry about being killed in battle because they would...