It's not rape if you don't mind it.

Ugh you disgust me!

@MoxCo - You didn't actually say anything about many people only being kind because they have to - law and all that!

A kind action with a conceited intent is not a kind action, there are kind people out there and they don't need the law to keep them in tow.

True atheists wouldn't rape or kill!

True women would keep their trap shut and out of guy arguments!

True Joe would never be that mean :(

Thats a great way of describing Islam.

Maybe one of the better ideas Islam brought about XD bahaaaaa I keed. Or do I?

Perhaps you're like that. Clearly I'm on a higher level than you are.

But he makes up for it by being solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.

Opening up a sacred text to metaphorical interpretation rips the heart out of any religion. Fundamentalists are right to fear and oppose such interpretations because it makes the central dogmas of faith untenable and painfully ridiculous.

No sacred text in any religion is truly interpretted literally. It's simply impossible. I can't speak for other religions, but in Judaism there is the concept of Oral Law and Written Law. Written Law is the five books of Moses. Tradition holds that God taught the Oral Law to Moses on Mount Sinai as a commentary to - and embellishment of - the Written Law.

This Oral Law was passed down orally from generation to generation (until about 400AD, long story), always framed in the current language and using familiar examples. This kept it dynamic and flexible.

The two Laws complement each other; neither can be fully understood without the other. For example, the bible says that for an animal to be kosher, it must be killed "In the way that I have showed you" (paraphrase). It's only in the Oral Law where those details are explained.

Another example is the phrase "An eye for an eye"; literally that sounds like a horrible form of punishment. However, in the Oral Law it is explained that this meant that personal injuries must be compensated in an adequate way; for instance if you injure someone and they lose an eye, you must pay them the financial value of an eye, however that is calculated.

So oral law is the moral zeitgeist?

I suppose, if you want to put it like that.

It's a bit more complicated now given that the Oral Law is, well, written down. But the concept is the same.

But doesn't oral law change over the years? I mean, 'in the way that I showed you' is very open to interpetation if you don't actually know the oral law part. Doesn't that just cause confusion?

taliban are terrorists and they are not muslims.
and there are some religions which we are ordered to fight, which are the religions which seek to destroy ours.

Any religion that encourages proselytising seeks to destroy all other religions.

Lucky that one of the core precepts of Islam is about respect for other cultures and religions then.

No it isn't.

What's this now?

Lucky that it actually works in practise. Most Islamic people I know don't have an ounce of respect for another culture or religion.

Oh? Islam as a religion started off in the city of Medina during Muhammed's lifetime, and the city of Medina had one of the first written constitutions for a city state and oh look at that there

Aye, politics.

I laugh before your complicated words and sentences.I'm an orthodox but I don't get myself involved in the God thing too much,never ask myself where did God came from and all that BS,I'm quite comfortable with that idea...God won't stop me from having a GF,a wife,kid and so on.....I get really confused with this 'God or No God' thing!Some people say that God is 3D,Some people say that God is Evil like atheists,etc etc.! FUCKING LIVE URE LIVES AND STOP ASKING URESELF ABOUT GOD AND START ASKING URESELF ABOUT WHAT URE GOING TO DO WITH URE LIFE!AND I'M QUTE A BELEIVER BUT WHEN I'LL BE DEAD AND GOD WILL JUDGE ME BY MY ACTS I'LL TELL HIM "OH,SORRY...I WAS JUST LIVING MY FUCKING LIFE,SORRY IF I BOTHERED U WITH THAT"I don't give a piss my life is from God,Why the fuck give life to humans if God knew that humans will have sins,give them life just to let them live,die and send them to hell???WTF IS THIS SHEET?

I... What?

Well, that was annoying to read.

Scientists say that God is soo big that he can't be seen...ugh..it's hard to explain..heard it from a guy once..search it on Google..

How the fuck does size change the amount of dimensions around you?

Flying Hippos that can control the color of beans.

Ah, the scientists! What don't they know about unfalsifiable nonsense?

You are forming very unusual arguments for someone supporting Christianity.

lolwut

I am pretty evil.

Fixed.

Thank you.

No, because it's fundamental within the religion that you must know both the Oral and Written Laws and not just one or the other.

I was generalising by summing up the majority. Do you want a hug?

Most people I know don't have an ounce of respect for other cultures or religions. Why should we pick on Muslims for what (sadly) seems to be a common human trait?

Ever heard of the graviton? Some theories posit that the gravitational force is significantly weaker than electromagnetism because it operates in 11 dimensions. Whatever that has to do with God, you know...

Yeah but the flaw with anything that is transferred by word of mouth is that it changes a lot. Ever did that one thing in school where someone would whisper something in someones ear, it would go down a chain of people and by the end of the chain you'd have something completely different come out? Well this works the same way.

I don't believe for a second that after hundreds of years the oral law is still exactly the same as it was originally told to the very first person. Nor do I believe that anyone practicing that religion tells the oral law exactly the same. As a form of rules, it's flawed by default.

Atheists think Both God and Satan are evil(Never thought I'd use Satan and God in the same sentence) because God Gives Birth to People that have sanitary problems like being blind and stuff and Satan is evil cuz he tortures people and all the other stuff that you know! That's why they live and believe in the power of humans not of God or Satan(Like most of the goths and emos do)!
Mark Twain was atheist(remember the Satan episode?) If you ever played Bioshock 1 or 2 you might know what I'm talking about...

... christ X_x ...

I mean firstly, Atheists do not believe that God or Satan is evil, cos there is no God or Satan to believe in.

Also, who the hell told you Goths and Emos are satanists(if that's what you're implying). They are just people following a trend. Most Goths and Emos don't even know what the hell they are doing.

Also, the supposed God does not give birth >: ( That's just creepy.

It all comes down to this:

If you believe in imaginary beings you are delusional and should seek professional help.

Alcar...

Hooray! I don't need professional help!