Bible or Koran?

[BabblingBrooke]

Would you be able to tell the difference? This 3:29 video is worth the watch.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friend...ocked/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

 

[spacekowboy]

I know what neither of them are....



A text book.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I know what neither of them are....



A text book.

Yes, you're certainly right about that!

 

[pointless]

ugh. fucking dutch is such a terrible language.

 

[magicalmoments]

Well, for all the sky fairy people out there, both these books were written by the same sky fairy, so not surprising that they are largely the same.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

There is nothing at all surprising about the video. My lack of faith in the intelligence of my fellow man increases every day I am here.

You could publish the Declaration of Independence and substitute the name of Abraham Lincoln for all references to the King or British Crown, and a significant number of Americans would swear that it was a statement of succession from various Confederate states just prior to the Civil War.

 

[Garnate]

Well, for all the sky fairy people out there, both these books were written by the same sky fairy, so not surprising that they are largely the same.

You're saying there's a giant sky fairy? Because these books were written by men, borrowing from every religion before them.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Would you be able to tell the difference? This 3:29 video is worth the watch.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friend...ocked/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Do you know why they share many similarities?

I do.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Do you know why they share many similarities?

I do.

Because both faith systems are Abrahamic.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Because both faith systems are Abrahamic.

Close, but still not the bulls eye.

 

[Setanta84]

Bigoted "Christian" commentators take a view of Islam that is not dissimilar from the view they take of Mormonism, i.e. that the teachings themselves are weak rip-offs of the earlier texts that were generated by con artists who were using their I've-got-a-direct-line-to-God claims to amass sources of power, sex, and money. Often, they will point out that Mohammed's wives often accused him of having these motivations.

Personally, I think there is a stronger case for someone like Joseph Smith being that kind of person--due to the previous history of fraud in his life and what the early "Church of Latter-Day Saints" was like--than for Mohammed.

People do have genuine religious experiences that they experience and act on honestly. I think Buddha, Christ, Paul of Tarsus, and Mohammed are all people who fall into that category. Note that out of the four, only one was a writer and the other three all kind of resented the idea of chronicling their teachings rather than simply living them and spreading them that way.

There ARE con artists who use religion cynically. Televangelists are the obvious example in mainstream, modern Western Christianity. The House of Saud is the best example of that in Islam--they clearly took a true-believing religious fanatic under their protection and used his teachings as a religious pretext for subjugating the other tribes in the region.

But it is extremely arrogant to think a person's or people's religious experience is suspect purely because it does not agree with your own or even seems derivative of your own.

 

[FGB]

There is nothing at all surprising about the video. My lack of faith in the intelligence of my fellow man increases every day I am here.

You could publish the Declaration of Independence and substitute the name of Abraham Lincoln for all references to the King or British Crown, and a significant number of Americans would swear that it was a statement of succession from various Confederate states just prior to the Civil War.

I wish you were wrong!

 

[Super-Surprise]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jby0I-zLj9c

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

At least it's not from that Wahabi-Scientist Sect headed by Sheikh Richard Dorky.

That's the guy who thinks he's a scientist and insists on cross-examining commercial successes like Deepak Chopra on matters to do with physics - except Dorkyns has never been as much as a quantum leap near a physics book in his tiny little, arrogant, angry and bitter life.

Dorky: "What EVIDENCE do you have for quantum healing being real Deepak, you dark-skinned foreigner!?!"

Chopra: "My back account?"