XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 8/18/2015 8:52 PM, mur wrote:   
   > On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:52:18 -0600, David Johnston  wrote:   
   > .   
   >> On 8/11/2015 12:42 PM, mur wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Miracle stories all do that.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>         The Koran says Jesus was not God's son, and is not an   
   intercessor.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Your point being?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>       It disagrees with things written about God/Allah in the past.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I see no way in which that is a problem.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>        Because you feel it glorifies him for things to be written that   
   disagree   
   >>>>> with things written about him in the past.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If they constitute claims of its power, sure.  After all, people don't   
   >>>> demand that all religion be consistent, so it doesn't present a problem.   
   >>>   
   >>>       Things like that cause much problem between some of God's people,   
   >>   
   >> Yeah but it doesn't present a problem for me or you.  And the   
   >> differences between the religions are quite deliberate so they don't   
   >> pose a problem for the people who create them either.  The people who   
   >> created Islam didn't _want_ their people to be Christians.  That would   
   >> give the Eastern Romans too much influence over them.   
   >   
   >      So we should feel that there are no problems caused by differences in   
   > religious beliefs?   
   >   
      
   That question has drifted into irrelevance.  There are no problems for a   
   religion that it is different from what other "false" religions say.   
   There aren't even any problems for a religion if it contradicts itself.   
      
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