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I guess the unknown is whether, once identified, will prospective students actually want to such courses?

Totally agree

It has to be one the most misused and inappropriately used abstract nouns in the English language! Bigotry : "Intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself" Firstly, it is almost always used in a negative sense. Tolerance is positive and intolerance is negative. But life...

What would I say? I would focus largely on Jesus Christ. Keep it simple - don't get dragged in to what "good" necessarily means or how it is defined. Good in the biblical sense means complete or perfect, and this is one of the main attributes we can identify with Jesus

All religions are superficially the same - any reasonable amount of effort to investigate religion(s0 in more detail reveals they are quite different from each other. "But should Christianity be just another form of humanism? If not then what should distinguish Christianity from humanism?" I...

I would say that the lense of belief or disbelief is fundamentally a subjective thing, since how else can you explain such divergent views within seemingly the same schools of thought ? Take "believers" - which god or gods do you believe in? Are you a theist, deist, pandeist, pantheist...

Right, so it would appear that the evidence seems to show that "Allah" has got this wrong then? And this is strange since the Quran was written 609-632 AD, which is around 600 years after the death of Jesus. So why, given that we know that Jesus DID die on a cross, did Allah not know this and...

Since when is Allah sources outside of the Quran? We only know about Allah in the first place from within the Quran. Are there any sources outside of Allah/ Quran revelation to support what Islam says differently about Jesus/ Isa? For example, we know that Jesus was crucified, not only from the...

So where did the Islamic understanding of Jesus/ Isa come from? And what sources outside of the Quran support the Islamic view as opposed to the Christian view?

. So what was the source used for the Quran account of Jesus/ Isa? For example, in my Bible Jesus was in a manger (Luke 2). In the Quran he was born under a palm tree (Surah 19) In the bible, Jesus died on a cross (Matthew 27 etc). In the Quran, he escaped crucifixion (Surah 4:157-158) Who...

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Okay, so do you therefore accept the Quran as a historical record of Jesus/ Isa also? I think it'a an advantage because they offer multiple perspectives. The alleged contradictions and discrepancies, if anything increase authenticity, rather than having 4 exact copies of the gospel account...

You didn't say historical evidence specifically ("What evidence do you have outside of the Bible that Jesus even existed?") Regardless, are you therefore saying that the Quran is NOT a historically reliable text? We don't have contemporary non-biblical accounts for Jesus, but we have...

I don't disagree with most of this, but that is because it is different from your original definition. What you are saying in essence is that you reject the evidence that theists rely to substantiate their belief in a god of some description. That is fundamentally different to saying there...

Unless we live in multiple realities, the 2 positions (atheism/ theism) are inseparable because we discussing views of the same reality. By definition, insufficient/ absence of evidence on one side has clear implications for the other side. My underlying point here is that by definition, the...

So who wrote the Quran and how was it received from god? There are around a dozen Arabic fables that are in the Quran - for example, Surah 2:65 and 7 163-166 (about people being turned in to apes) was a contemporary myth For example? So what is the source(s) of the accounts of Isa in the...

The Quran? How do you define "contemporary with Jesus" exactly? But that's clearly not true - are you suggesting that we can understand to them same level about Muhammad from the main text of Islam the Quran, that we can about Jesus from the main text of Christianity?

Depends what you mean - do you mean the Muhammad as prophet who received the final word from God, or do you mean someone called Muhammad who started the Islamic religion? Hinduism pre-dates Islam, so this is not a difficult concept. It is fairly easy to identify aspects of the Quran derived...

You do care though - you're using this passage as your trump card to disprove the Bible, as stated in your post above?

Can't you see why your definition is unsatisfactory though? You appear to imply that those who believe in god do so on the basis of no evidence.