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Islam did not have a dark age in order to need an "enlightenment." And the "Enlightenment" came to Europe and Christendom from Islam, as did the scientific method which launched the scientific revolution. Actually, and this is usually disregarded, one can say that the Islamic civilization...

Re: rules Are you kidding us or yourself? Where do you get your information from? Tell us, where do you find in Islam that Muslims should kill people of the book for just being people of the book? If your claim is true, then how do you explain that after 1500 years of Muslim dominance and...

A stereotype can be simply used based on ignorance, but bigotry implies hate, intent and malice.

I do not play keyboards, if that is what you are asking about :) . However, I play the drums (not in a band now) and I like classic rock and heavy metal. However, I prefer the older bands to the newer ones.

Really, you think? How about another thread titled "Did Jews stop drinking the blood of Christian boys?" Or, "Is Christianity actually a religion of Love?" I know many people who would like to take you on if you use such a title. You do understand that the percentage of Muslims who reside...

I agree with you. Such statements are bigoted in the least (is bigoted a better choice of words than racist?). Now, to respond to the accusation itself, one can say with much more proof that Christians have cheered for the massacre of pagans and infidels since Roman times (they even cheered...

Not true. Money and support are only a secondary factor, and children are not only “her children” but rather “their children,” both the mother and the father. The society needs to know both parents in order to avoid the marriage and incest of siblings. While society can almost always ascertain...

As for your claim that God can do anything, well fine: God has killed himself earlier today. The world now has no God. And guess what? Right before He died he appointed Me ruler over the world. How about that for the power of a God who could do anything? LOL.

What is my concept of God? I have not even mentioned what is my belief. You are saying that God is male, in our human sense of male and female. How did you arrive at that conclusion? Did you see His male organ? Do we know of a wife for God? Do you have an x-ray that shows that He has male...

So are you saying that God the Father has a male organ? Does He work the soil to feed His child? Does He have a wife and enjoy sex? You know, that would expalin His creative powers: He just loves these divine women and could not help Himself but have all kinds of children, of all kinds, His...

So, do we only accept the "structure" of Paul, but not the rest of his text?

Do not think of God in anthropomorphic terms, at least not when talking about all the Abrahamic religions. God has no sexual organs or functions. We cannot castrate Him. He has no gender at all, because He has no body. The reason we refer to Him as Him is because our languages were formed in a...

Christianity as we know it is founded on the teachings of Paul, and not Jesus who is seldom quoted in the Bible. Further, it is always claimed that the authors of the Bible were divinely inspired: is this a lie?

Thank God for the internet, where knowledge could be had in an instance. Praised be the Lord of the internet. Anyway, you still did not slove the riddle. Which Greeks were you talking about when you said that they could not have influenced Christianity because they came after Jesus or after...

Which Greeks are we talking about? The Greek Greeks, the ones in question relating to pagan influences on Christianity, existed way before Jesus' time and their influence was carried over thru the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. If you mean the Byzantines, that is the Eastern Roman Empire...

Define western.

There is no basis for comparison as you make it. An employer selects his/her employees based on merit, and the employee has to fulfill the employer’s qualifications for the job in order to be accepted. You cannot go to a doctor’s office and ask for a job as a doctor while you are a mechanical...

The business lobby, the union lobby, the environmental lobby, and the gay lobby, all of these examples are of non-exclusionary groupings. You can be whatever ethnicity and yet be a businessman/woman, belong to a union, care about the environment, or have whatever sexual inclinations. Further, a...

As for # 1, yes. There are many indications in Islam that at the end of the day all you need to have is true faith in God and you will be saved. For starters, God can forgive any sin you commit except non-belief. In other words, if one has belief one is certainly ending in Paradise. The question...

There are many levels of interaction and relationships. On one level, you have the scholars, the real top of the chain scholars, who can an do talk and discuss things together. Sometimes even study together. Then you have the personal level. There is actually very little perceptible difference...