Quran vs Bible

[finnbow]

An interesting and entertaining video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnWw_lH4tQ

This is probably enough to make a Biblethumper's head explode.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

An interesting and entertaining video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnWw_lH4tQ

This is probably enough to make a Biblethumper's head explode.

The Dutch are so less enlightened than we.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The Dutch are so less enlightened than we.

Having been to the Netherlands dozens of times over the past 40 years, I've grown very fond of the Dutch people. Friendly, gracious, tolerant and humorous. Good folk.

[bobabode]

Too funny. Someone should do the same in our Bible Belt.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Having been to the Netherlands dozens of times over the past 40 years, I've grown very fond of the Dutch people. Friendly, gracious, tolerant and humorous. Good folk.

Indeed they treated Florence and me very well, we enjoyed the times we were there.

The film did point out the error of following the Old Testament as most of it was based on tribal laws much the same as Sharia Law is, or Wahhabi is. None of the three has any place in today's society.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Indeed they treated Florence and me very well, we enjoyed the times we were there.

The film did point out the error of following the Old Testament as most of it was based on tribal laws much the same as Sharia Law is, or Wahhabi is. None of the three has any place in today's society.

Does the Quran have any revisionist scripture, such as the New Testament scriptures especially the life of Christ with its "turn the cheek" mantra?

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Does the Quran have any revisionist scripture, such as the New Testament scriptures especially the life of Christ with its "turn the cheek" mantra?

Not to my knowledge and it still thinks women are second class people. I don't believe that twelve should be the age of consent.

As to the New Testament look in the first book of John, Chapter 4, verse 8. It was more than 'turn the other cheek'.

[donquixote99]

I understand why Hillel said it that way: to most people, evil is distasteful, and repellent, and ugly. But if the guide is only "what is distasteful to you" then people with funny tastes are free to carve on others. I think the guide to right and wrong is internal, born into us, but some people are not on the right track for some reason. We should think about "what other people do," seeing what's regular and what's divergent, as a crosscheck against our own notions.

(This is a more general comment, no bearing on what one should think of the OT. I view the OT as a cultural artifact only.)

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

But if the guide is only "what is distasteful to you" then people with funny tastes are free to carve on others.

Don Q, you are one of the reasons I come to this site; you have that special third eye.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Don Q, you are one of the reasons I come to this site; you have that special third eye.

Me and Nick Danger, eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B4LqXItX6w