Sanders' Religion Thread, Begun @ LC Forum Options

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e-Dog and I have decided to re-constitute this from LC. It is a thread about the 3 major religions of the world. The goal was to follow the path of each from their common origins to the present day. We (a number of LC posters and I) got as far as the begining of the First Crusade while the thread was active.

What becomes of this thread when all the copying is done is not clear. It may be just a read-only thread for the Religion topic. Or it may be left open to posting, so we can finish the journey.

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Posted by: Daniels Jul 31 2006, 03:54 AM

I have questions (not to degrade anyone or their beliefs): how can Allah and God be the same being if they do not share the same attributes?

How can Allah be God, if God is a trinity and Allah is one being?

How can Allah be God, if God was to send a part of himself to die for the sins of mankind and Allah has done no such thing?

How can Allah be God, if Allah desires the destruction of the Jews and God does not?

I don't understand. I didn't take usediscernment's post to be offensive, but rather, pointing out that if Allah is God and vice versa, then Christians, Jews, and Muslims should agree that Allah/God has the same characteristics regarding love, sin, hatred, vindictiveness, murder, the trinity, one being, salvation, etc. But we all don't agree on that issue. So if we are not in agreement on that, how is it that they are one in the same?

I am just inquiring to further our understanding on the beliefs of each of these religions, I am not trying to insult anyone, and I believe this is crucial to understanding exactly what the conflict is.

DayAfterTomorrow, we have to look beyond the dogma of religion to see it more clearly.

Take all the red quotes from the New Testament and look at them. Ignore the rest.

The Bible is true, but it was written by people. People are fallible, God is not.

The red quotes of Jesus tell a story. The rest of it, as well as the interpretations put on it by humans, tend to mislead. The Bible is true, but how do we correctly interpret 666, a man with feet of brass and a sword for a tongue, etc?

Why else would there be thousands of Christian sects in the world? They're interpreting scripture. In the Book of Daniel we are told that no one would be able to interpret that Book. Yet everyone has tried, and claimed that their particular interpretation is the correct one.

The Muslims have their problems too. The Koran, I believe, is the exact Word of God because it was dictated to an amanuensis.

However, the Muslims have many thousands of Traditions attributed to Mahammad, only some of which are genuine. The rest being misleading and corrupting.

Trying to form a consensus on religious belief is fraught with difficulty.