Those crazy Muslim bastards did it again

[rainbow]

This is true. This is why I now categorize Islam not as a religion at all, but as a sociopolitical movement, and as a sociopolitical movement it can be controlled and/or extirpated if necessary.

Wow! We agree on something.

There is a God.

[Galaxian]

I invite catch lines to this:
"How many theologians does it take to change a light bulb?"

Here's a couple of great compendiums:

http://www.oocities.org/athens/parthenon/6528/light.htm

http://www.sikhawareness.com/topic/15200-muslim-jokes/

[rainbow]

Wrong. That is all we need to know to understand their nature. What else is there?

Irrational belief. That's a BIG "what else".

Stalinism is based on a number of irrational beliefs. Yet does not require God.

Therefore you are wrong again.

[rainbow]

I invite catch lines to this:
"How many theologians does it take to change a light bulb?"

Here's a couple of great compendiums:

http://www.oocities.org/athens/parthenon/6528/light.htm

http://www.sikhawareness.com/topic/15200-muslim-jokes/

Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light

Therefore the bulb stopped working due to lack of faith, and there is no point in replacing it.

[pErvinalia]

Wrong. That is all we need to know to understand their nature. What else is there?

Irrational belief. That's a BIG "what else".

Stalinism is based on a number of irrational beliefs. Yet does not require God.

Therefore you are wrong again.

Non-sequitur

[JimC]

Religions and certain types of political movements have some important details in common, and yet they also important differences. One cannot understand the differences without analysing the supernatural belief systems inherent in religions. Analysing them does not mean accepting their delusional premises...

[pErvinalia]

[rainbow]

Wrong. That is all we need to know to understand their nature. What else is there?

Irrational belief. That's a BIG "what else".

Stalinism is based on a number of irrational beliefs. Yet does not require God.

Therefore you are wrong again.

Non-sequitur

Et ex ista regula sequitur alia...

[rainbow]

Religions and certain types of political movements have some important details in common, and yet they also important differences. One cannot understand the differences without analysing the supernatural belief systems inherent in religions. Analysing them does not mean accepting their delusional premises...

Drivel. Both are ideologies, religion simply uses the belief in the supernatural to justify itself.

[JimC]

Religions and certain types of political movements have some important details in common, and yet they also important differences. One cannot understand the differences without analysing the supernatural belief systems inherent in religions. Analysing them does not mean accepting their delusional premises...

Drivel. Both are ideologies, religion simply uses the belief in the supernatural to justify itself.

I'm not denying that both are ideologies, but important details of their history, internal dynamics and differences to other religions can only be understood by analysing their supernatural belief structures.

[pErvinalia]

Wrong. That is all we need to know to understand their nature. What else is there?

Irrational belief. That's a BIG "what else".

Stalinism is based on a number of irrational beliefs. Yet does not require God.

Therefore you are wrong again.

Non-sequitur

Et ex ista regula sequitur alia...

Non sequitur

[pErvinalia]

Religions and certain types of political movements have some important details in common, and yet they also important differences. One cannot understand the differences without analysing the supernatural belief systems inherent in religions. Analysing them does not mean accepting their delusional premises...

Drivel. Both are ideologies, religion simply uses the belief in the supernatural to justify itself.

What are you babbling about? A concept has no "itself". Religion is the sum total of its followers. They justify it by the act of aligning-to/following it.

[rainbow]

Religions and certain types of political movements have some important details in common, and yet they also important differences. One cannot understand the differences without analysing the supernatural belief systems inherent in religions. Analysing them does not mean accepting their delusional premises...

Drivel. Both are ideologies, religion simply uses the belief in the supernatural to justify itself.

What are you babbling about? A concept has no "itself". Religion is the sum total of its followers. They justify it by the act of aligning-to/following it.

Religion isn't a concept, but an organization.

[JimC]

So is the KKK, or Rotary. To identify one important property that religions share with other social groupings is insufficient to understand their history and impact on human society.

[Seth]

So why are you defending Islam by attacking Christians?

Use your brain. You are claiming there is something inherently wrong with Islam when compared to Christianity.

No, I'm stating that drawing a moral equivalency between contemporary Christianity and contemporary Islam by resorting to the Wayback Machine fallacy is unreasoning idiocy.