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I believe hell to be remedial punishment only. One can only sin so much.

It's interesting how in some ways Christian eschatology and Muslim eschatology match up, and in other ways they depart. For instance, the Christian antichrist is alleged by some to be one-eyed and without the use of one arm. It's speculated that this is the result of the head wound he will...

I think that would be a valid question as well.

I'm not a Christian, nor is the question directed at Christians. Why not ask Muslims themselves the question? To some degree this is because 'Jewish' is both a race and a religion. That depends on where you live. Here in the US we have a very broad concept of freedom of speech that allows for...

I feel it's worth pointing out that Shiia Islam does not necessarily prohibit images of Muhammed. I've heard there are museums in Iran that display historically important examples of such images.

I hadn't even seen this thread when I posted mine, sorry for the dupe. I guess great minds think alike or something. ;)

As another example, the wikipedia article on Muhammed used to have a reproduction of a medieval painting of Muhammed as the article picture. There was nothing disrespectful at all about the image itself, but it stirred up a huge controversy within wikipedia. Hundreds of muslims poured into the...

I understand that perfectly. I'm just saying that some Muslims treat it like it's the end of the world when they feel someone is being disrespectful. If that newspaper had published disrespectful images of Jesus, it would have been forgotten about in a week and it wouldn't have turned into...

No, sorry, I don't use sock puppets. :) Edit: Oh, I see why you said that. I didn't even notice someone posted a similar thread already.

This isn't necessarily about the cartoons, which admittedly weren't in the best of taste. However, the reaction was way over the top.

The Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper sparked worldwide protests and a few riots. Salman Rushdie had a death sentence placed on his head for writing The Satanic Verses, and again violent reprisals were promised when he was honored by the Queen. It seems to me Christians are much less...

I don't dispute that. I'm speaking more theoretically.

No, Jews are supposed to follow all 613 laws of their religion. The laws were given to the Jewish people to follow, not for everyone. The only code of conduct specified for gentiles is the Noahide laws. The Jewish religion is different than other religions in that there's not a universal code...

Every Jew I've ever discussed religion with online has said gentiles are only responsible for following the noahide laws. There are only like nine or ten of them. Conversion is generally discouraged as well because "It's better to be a righteous gentile than a bad Jew."

I'm skeptical of the concept of Astral Projection, but none the less I think it would be interesting to try to induce an out-of-body experience. A few months ago I used to achieve the 'mind-awake/body-asleep' state spontaneously, but at the time I didn't know it had anything to do with out of...

That depends on how you look at it and what you value. If you view chastity and modesty as the ultimate goal, then certainly there's a lot more of that enforced in Islamic societies. If you transported your average western woman to Saudi Arabia she'd feel like a slave because half of the...

That's the problem, we don't have proof of life after death, just suggestion. No one has put forth anything better as of yet.

I'm not convinced anyone can see auras. Most of the time this thing has been scientifically tested, the readers have done no better than chance. We're either left with the fact that people cannot read auras, or that they can read auras, but their abilities disappear under scientific...

As for the Quran, it's no more scientifically accurate than any other Holy Book. If there were some kind of eerily prophetic scientific knowledge contained within, we'd have heard about it by now. None of the examples I've seen trotted forward were very impressive. As for the Quran remaining...