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: DayAfterTomorrow Jul 31 2006, 04:12 AM

I understand what you're saying, but the Bible and the Qu'ran have such adamently opposing positions on the character of God and Allah that I don't know how you can attribute that to human mistakes. These aren't just subtle differences, for instance, going from destroying Jews in the Qu'ran to loving them in the Bible is a HUGE leap.

The beliefs are not that closely related. Like Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of mankind in the Bible vs. no mention of such thing in the Qu'ran. The spiritual and physical death of Jesus is a huge deal to Christians and Jews, and yet, not at all existant in Islam.

The Koran, I believe, is the exact Word of God because it was dictated to an amanuensis.

Who dictated the Qu'ran to an amanuensis? That is important. After all, an amanuensis is also a human, and therefore prone to mistake.

If you take the pentateuch (first 5 books of the Bible, or otherwise referred to as the Torah) into consideration, they are considered to be written by Moses (who, after all, is only human) but are also considered to have been dictated by God to Moses.