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Well, as there is nothing all religions agree upon, it's subjective in religions as well. And as I said, I see no religion which does not produce hate towards others. You can easily come to ethical...

Funny enough, 90% of the Christian fundamentalist image of the devil and of hell come directly from Dante Alighieri and Milton, and not from the Bible. And their sources are also mostly apocryphal...

Yes, that's the easy way out. My father used to be like that for sixty years of his life. Then he took it upon himself to actually read something about what he had believed and found that in fact he...

So then why do the literal and fundamentalist religious always threat their scipture as if it was absolutely true even in the absence of any evidence, whereas contradciting science which is based on...

But the Torah is older than those scrolls. Yes, after the Torah as a set collection had been established, it was handed down the generations and replicated in a very meticulous fashion, and it's no...

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Which implies to me that the three not-mere-mortals in question are the authors of the respective texts by divine intercession, and not others reporting about them. OK, I now...

Do you mean to say that Islam views anything in scripture as having been written by Jesus?

Theology by the way along with historical research also holds the same view that all scripture has been...

Historically speaking it is true that there was a separate "Allah" mythology before Islam and a separate YHVH (or El, Elohim, etc.) mythology or even several before Judaism and Christianity. All...

But it should be said that nothing in the New Testament is attributed to Jesus as a writer, it's more like a biography. And the books about Moses aren't written by the Moses person either, it would...

No, in fact I'm simply content to assume that maybe we'll eventually figure it out. I don't see it as a matter of random chance vs. conscious will, although Occam's Razor tells me that if it's...

Our internal time did not, but there's nothing which says that outside was nothing and had no time. We could be a bubble inside a brew inside a crucible inside some kid's chemistry set setup. Or not....

If a theory says that a present outcome is extremely unlikely unless things were just so to the nth decimal point, then that is a strong inkling that the theory itself is not refined enough. But that...

What's very interesting in my opinion is that if you look at the mystics within any religious tradition, such as Meister Eckhardt in Christianity, the Muslim sufis, but also mystics of any other...

Actually in the liturgic year of the Western churches Easter is also the most important celebration and also the time when the liturgic year starts and ends. It's only the fact that the presents tend...

Actually it's a good one and no less insane than the contenders. :)

Point 1: absolutely, yes.
Point 2: that would be the descendancy legend but not the origin of Islam, as that traces back only to Mohammed.

@ Crocodile: all that text of yours needs is the right...

That is to simplify it extremely. Many people have died in the pursuit of settling this dispute. Arianism for example was a very strong school of thought within early Christianity, and it was...

The word "god" as such is not a name. It's a bit different for "Allah" because while today it is no different from the word "God" or "Lord" anymore, it used to be a personal name when this god was...