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What l was saying is: your Bible already has precedent for it, so it's not so weird that we might also believe Jesus bodily ascended to heaven. Also yes, of course, you can have the sequence of resurrection from the dead, then bodily ascension. I hope you realise why we consider this anathema by...

I have read your OP, i believe that is the focal point of the thread. MDMA is not a powerful emotion by itself. It works via acting on a subtype of serotonin receptor and doubtless has knock on effects with other neurotransmitters. But again, not even these chemicals are an emotion by...

This is not about me or my needs. I never said they should. However, the belief in evolution is synonymous with atheism today, even if there are religious believers in evolution too. No, it's not synonymous? Well, l have observed it to be. Plus it doesn't really matter, l mean, let's just get...

Back for a moment only: This is the precise question: You smell a rose perfume. It invokes a poignant bittersweet emotion in you. You respect numbers, the Fibonacci sequence, the prime number sequence, it feels like the universe, reality itself, has a "mind", and this mind culminates in us, as...

Yep that'd be great! It'd put real sport into the forum, instead of idle posting. Anyway l think l better chill now. My work life is suffering again. Peace. I may return next week. Feel free to post a heartfelt and reasoned critique of Islam in a relevant board. It'd be interesting to know how...

@RJM Corbet I was just answering your question, not dwelling on it. But it is an absolute fact that Islamophobia is tolerated whereas similar attacks on other beliefs would not be tolerated. I have taken a number of bigoted posters / postings to task here...

By the way this is going way off topic now, but am happy to discuss it on the Islamic board .... @RJM Corbet I am going into self imposed exile again by the way, l need to get work done, plus l don't want to become a deranged forum poltergeist (happens to the best of us if we're online too long).

They say Napoleon and his general Jacques Menou converted to Islam hehe. I'm not sure if it was a genuine conversion or just self-promotion by him. Agree about King Alfred though. Best ever.

Swastikahead was slandering our religion's Prophet's marriages in every which way, without any basis. This is typical of his interfaith dialogue. He is lauded because he wisely goes easy on Christianity and is atheism-compatible being a Dharmist. But l feel the main thing is, it's only Islam so...

I think what l wanted to know is: how do you explain aesthetics? That's fundamentally it. I would like you to confront aesthetics and feed back how you get around what l feel is a spiritual viewpoint (l don't think aesthetics can be explained via materialism - and would like to know how you...

I have to agree with the others @muhammad_isa on this point at least: Cromwell shaped modern tolerant secular Britain, true. But he was a horrible guy, especially to the Irish. He enslaved them. I think they were some of the first slaves in the Caribbean?

Thank you again. I do see some very unpleasant attacks on Islam on these boards. Please see what l'm seeing. Of course it is mild compared to other websites.

1. I don't desire any result for you 2. I strongly believe you will never be Theist. Call it a hunch. 3. Caveat: feel free to disagree. If i wrote this out for every post, my posts would be occluded but yeah feel free to differ constructively. 4. As elaborated: it was an axiom being tested. 5...

I really don't see how he differs from anybody else preaching their views. But anyway this is way off topic for me. I think spending too much time on a forum makes people hyper. By the way, l welcome challenges. As long as they are sincere, intellectually honest, logical.

OK well l've not seen anything so far. Just Thomas, juantoo3, and widowburner barracking him. Sorry for not agreeing with you.

Thank you. As ScholarlySeeker said, the muhammad_isa is inoffensive. I agree. He was dismissive of Bishops and priests, but in the same breath, of Islamic clergy too, so he was even-handed. Is there any specific post he was out of order? I'd be interested to give an opinion, maybe heal hearts...

This is not about the person. This is about Atheist Mysticism. This is not a matter l have even dwelt on recently and it certainly didn't convert me to theism, as l was already theist. I am asking you to try it to see where it leads you. No, God is not an object to me. No, l do not recommend...

Please, can an atheist or a believer in evolution please take me on and show me the evidence for evolution by mutation? That is, the type of evolution that causes a fish to give rise to a cat? Please don't link stack or book hurl, just put it in your own words.

So, in the affair of Christianity, one of you says the other is widely read. That other says there are no primary texts to speak of. So what you been reading then? Thank you, between the two of you, you made me smile today.

You say Jesus spoke in parables to hide the truth from the ordinary. This therefore contradicts his role - and the role of any Prophet - as a teacher. Why else do we even exist. You then say the secret meaning was passed on to the select. Evidently this includes you, and now me. You then ask...