Ask a Muslim? Ask a Christian? Ask a Buddhist? Ask a Jew?

[August1991]

Ask a Muslim: Is the Koran the literal word of God?

Ask a Christian: Is the New Testament the moral word of God?

Ask a Jew: Is the Pentateuch the word of God?

Ask a Buddhist, what is God?

Ask an atheist: Is there a God?

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Nowadays, in this 21st century world, I reckon that we must first confront ignorant superstitious rich Muslims.

Then, we can deal with pollution problems. 

 

[August1991]

American leftiists are obsessed about federal regulation, blackl/white, so-called Civil Rights.

In Canada, we elected a minority PM in 1896. Imagine. Yes, we did.

[Moonlight Graham]

2 hours ago, August1991 said:

Nowadays, in this 21st century world, I reckon that we must first confront ignorant superstitious rich Muslims.

Tell me how that works out...

[eyeball]

3 hours ago, August1991 said:

Nowadays, in this 21st century world, I reckon that we must first confront ignorant superstitious rich Muslims.

Confronting poor Muslims has cost us trillions. How much do you reckon confronting rich ones will cost? 

[kactus]

3 hours ago, August1991 said:

Nowadays, in this 21st century world, I reckon that we must first confront ignorant superstitious rich Muslims.

Then, we can deal with pollution problems. 

 

Why are we not confronting the oil rich Saudi Muslims? 

Hold that thought for a moment....

[Rue]

Well since you asked me, no I don't think the Pentateuch is the word of God but I don't doubt some of my fellow Jews who are religious do.

Me personally I believe the Pentateuch like any other writing or passages was written by humans who believe they were inspired by God.

Me personally I believe the only entity or thing that can speak for "God" if  "God" speaks, is "God" .

Now in terms of remedying the world's problems, I think they are caused by a lot of human beings and while I don' doubt some of them might be rich Muslims I would think there are others too who may or may not be rich, may or may not be Muslim.

I suspect everyone on this planet is a problem in some way or another.

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[August1991]

On 12/22/2016 at 2:07 AM, eyeball said:

Confronting poor Muslims has cost us trillions. How much do you reckon confronting rich ones will cost? 

In the 21st century, poor Muslims will not be the problem. (Poor  Buddhists or even poor Christians were never a problem.... Ever.)

Eyeball, it is rich superstitious Muslims that I fear.

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Maybe like England in the 1600s, the Arabic language needs a Shakespeare.

Maybe like France in the 1700s, Saudi Arabia and Iran desperately need a Voltaire.

Edited December 24, 2016 by August1991

[eyeball]

41 minutes ago, August1991 said:

In the 21st century, poor Muslims will not be the problem. (Poor  Buddhists or even poor Christians were never a problem.... Ever.)

Eyeball, it is rich superstitious Muslims that I fear.

I fear how much it costs to accommodate the fear of Muslims.

The problem, as always, will be when rich white wingers lose their grip.

[Guest]

It's certainly expensive to try and track and stop all the violence, but what can you do?  You have to try, even though failure is always a possibility. 

[eyeball]

Try not to inspire so much in the first place.

Yeah, looks like we failed alright.

Edited December 24, 2016 by eyeball

[kactus]

In the absence of oil and western countries intervention in that region one could envisage how a "voltaire" might adapt to the society in that region. Reality is far different from such inspirations. But hey it is what it is...We all know about the history of our interventions in that region. Installing of puppet governments that serve our interest in favour of real democracy flourishing, sell arms in exchange for cheap oil, funding terrorist groups and the list goes on....

And when the years of failed policies finally backfires oblivious to the real cause and geo-politiks of middle east we would somehow aspire to wishy-washy french  enlightenment to fix these....

Edited December 24, 2016 by kactus

[August1991]

On 12/24/2016 at 5:48 AM, kactus said:

In the absence of oil and western countries intervention in that region one could envisage how a "voltaire" might adapt to the society in that region. Reality is far different from such inspirations. But hey it is what it is...We all know about the history of our interventions in that region. Installing of puppet governments that serve our interest in favour of real democracy flourishing, sell arms in exchange for cheap oil, funding terrorist groups and the list goes on....

And when the years of failed policies finally backfires oblivious to the real cause and geo-politiks of middle east we would somehow aspire to wishy-washy french  enlightenment to fix these....

"Installing of puppet governments...  "

Sorry, kactus. You've lost me right there. The place of two holy cities is not a creation of Western Civilization.

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Too many Western Leftists believe Western Rightists control the world. IME, the world is a bigger place than western left/right.