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Quote: Originally Posted by Ali_008 Like I said before you are just following your own whims without any facts to back your claim and by refuting this plea you, my friend, sound like you need a psychologist. I don't need any facts because I make no claim. I simply refute yours, which is the rational thing to do given a weak claim with nothing to back it up. I was hoping we could avoid the whole "atheists need a psychologist vs...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pygoscelis People have been saying we're near the end times for hundreds of years now (thousands if you look to the Christians, and hundreds of thousands if you look to some older religions), and yet here we still are. No judgment day. Care to make a prediction for when it'll happen? I'd caution against it given all those who have before and been wrong. Your reaction does make me angry sometimes but...

Quote: Originally Posted by Guestfellow I don't think the non-Muslim members have actually bothered reading that. I've read it. And my concern is that it appears that in a number of places in the world that Muslims have not read it, for we hear more and more stories of incidents where people seek to enforce the law of apostasy with execution for those who are not treasoness toward the state, but only have reject Islam in favor of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ali_008 You’re trying to tell me that how could earth and heavens separate when they didn’t even exist at the time of the Big Bang? I hope I got it right this time. Almost. The trouble is, the more you need to interpret the further you get from the actual text, and I still contend that that text describes the separation not the subatomic particles composing a 'seething ball of energy', but of two...

Quote: Just my opinion here. I see "no compulsion in religion" as applying to non-Muslims and not to Muslims. We are forbidden to force any non-Muslim into accepting Islam. You deleted some posts on another thread concerning what I am about to post because it was off topic. I hope it is more appropriate here. A member has posted that one of the reasons that a Muslim country can attack a non-Muslim country is if that country...

To Eliphaz.. the punishment for high treason in the U.S is Death ! please see: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...enb/ROSENB.HTM I don't know what the coca cola analogy is all about?.. The prophet (p) has given reprieve to several apostates (browse this forum for more details) since the topic has been discussed perhaps a hundred times over. interestingly the punishment for apostasy in Judaism is also death! all the best!

[QUOTE=Fedos;1261832] Quote: That's some amazing gymnastics with the text you just did there. "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you these testimonies ". The angel is quoted giving testimonies , prophecies, and warnings of plagues . "whoever takes away from the prophecies ...the plagues will befall them". It is obvious that jesus is refering to the quotes of the angle's testimonies and not...

Actually, it might have to wait till tomorrow. For reasons that may have to do with a combination of my illness (which I think is getting better, but you never know when these things flare briefly up a second time), the medicine I'm taking, and who knows what else, I'm feeling prematurely drowsy. Nothing major, but I'm not sure if in the coming hours I'm going to be up to the task of writing a whole article, at least at my...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pygoscelis I have to agree, its a rather off the mark comparison. I can sort of see the treason bit, though its a deadly double standard. But the secrets bit? You muslims have secrets that us non-muslims are not supposed to know about? Never heard of that before. Military secrets. If I join the US army, work my way up and find out all the military tactics and then defect to uzbekistan, I'm a dead man. Quote:...

Quote: Originally Posted by titus I believe that premise is arrogant. To believe that if someone believes different than you then they are either ignorant or full of themselves is a bit arrogant, don't you think? From what I have gathered from the non-believers on this forum they are quite respectful of the believers. They do disagree with them and their disagreements are what make up threads such as this. After all, if everyone agreed...