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   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:25:15 UTC, nystulc@cs.com wrote:   
      
   > ... It is virtually impossible,   
   > therefore, for a Christian to acknowledge that Muslim's are, indeed,   
   > monotheists, without acknowledging that their One Almighty God is the   
   > same One Almighty God.   
   >   
   > The logical solution, is for each to acknowledge that the other   
   > worships the same God, but to argue that the other's understanding of   
   > Him is imperfect, which is in fact what both sides do.   
      
   Then again, to illustrate the sor to fmonotheism often held by Christians   
   who are ill informed but not malicious, there was the warder who handled   
   the paperwork when Bertrand Russell was admitted to prison during the   
   Great War. Asking for Russell's religion, he had a bit of a struggle with   
   "Agnostic" but remarked, "Well, there are religions and religions, but I   
   suppose we all worship the same God." Russell said it kept him cheerful   
   for some days.   
      
      
      
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