XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 10/20/2015 10:54 AM, mur@. wrote:   
   > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:18:17 -0600, David Johnston  wrote:   
   > .   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >      Some believe people have been killed in the name of such    
   ifferences.Some   
   > even believe wars have been fought in the name of such differences. You   
   believe   
   > nothing of significance has ever happened because of such differences.   
      
   No, I don't.  But thanks for making up things for me to believe.   
      
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