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Recent content by shaivealist

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    Questions about Islam, to Muslims

    Thank you, my dear Muslim brothers (and sisters?) who replied to my questions. Let me just make clear that I know that the history of Islam is often skewed in textbooks and that the present religious situation is often skewed in the media. I know for a fact that the state of many (if not most)...
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    Do I really deserve eternal punishment?

    I am not going to take each of those verses and analyze it, but almost all of those are taken totally out of context. In several sections of the Qur'an, "disbelievers" is used to refer exclusively to those who were laying siege to Medina, the city where the Prophet lived with his fellow Muslims...
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    Do I really deserve eternal punishment?

    As a non-Muslim studying Islam... The Qur'an DEFINITELY does not say that all non-Muslims will go to Hell, nor does it say that Hell is necessarilly "eternal," since God's merciful side always rules over his wrathful side. There are many strong hadiths about God picking people out of hellfire...
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    Questions about Islam, to Muslims

    I know I don't post here very often anymore - I rarely have access to the internet and I have been extra busy lately - but in my spare time I've been studying the religion of Islam and finding some pretty interesting things. First of all, I have had the misconception that Islam = fundamentalism...
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    Hinduism

    What do you think about slave labor in the overwhelmingly Christian United States not too long ago? What do you think about the aristocracy of Europe or the current gap between the rich and poor in the United States? What about the other flaws our country has? Do you blame Christianity for these?
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    Hinduism

    I am not at all offended by your ridiculous comments about India. I live in the United States and I was raised Catholic. I don't have a drop of Indian blood in me. However, I am offended that you associate the United States with Christianity, and that you only associate the good things we've...
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    Hinduism

    Ah, so Christianity is responsible for all of this "Western technology?" I guess that means it's also responsible for every evil the West has perpetrated or that has become common in the West. BTW I find it ironic and amusing that jinkazama's reputation is 666 as I write this message :)
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    Hinduism

    None of the things you listed came from Hinduism; they came from Hindus. Just wanted to make that distinction. And if this is what jinkazama is suggesting - that Christianity is a superior religion because the "Christian West" has produced so much technology and medicine - that's a ridiculous...
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    an open dialogue between Muslims and Danish people

    No, not a cartoon. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jult/free/islamic_mo_full/index.html At the bottom of the page under the last picture there is an explanation. Muslims have been depicting Muhammed in art for years with no outrage: one Western newspaper does it and embassies are burnt to the ground...
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    Hinduism

    Which of these things does Christianity offer?
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    an open dialogue between Muslims and Danish people

    What reason do you have to believe that the Danish people don't know anything about your prophet?
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    an open dialogue between Muslims and Danish people

    Why are the "Danish people" being dialogued with? It would seem to me that Denmark as a whole has nothing to do with this controversy. A few Danish people drew cartoons and a Danish newspaper published them. Why have a dialogue with Danish people in general? And another question: why all this...
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    Hinduism

    Even though I honestly don't see where this is going, I will comment on your post about vimanas and weapons. Just because the ancient Hindus wrote about these in their stories doesn't mean they existed. If I looked at science fiction from 50 years ago, I can find very complex tales about...
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    Hinduism

    I really don't know what to reply to this. What exactly is the hypothesis that these quotes support?