This just in....from a PEACEFUL religion.......

[walkeraviator]

Well......since we're talking about the 21st century and NOT the 12th century....and ISLAMIC RADICALS are the ones stoning people to death..........YEA, I'm using them as an example.

IN teh 20th Century the Nazis used Chritianity to slaughter Jews just as th Taliban and Al Quada are using Islam to kill Christians...

To this day Catholics and protestants try to kill eachother in Ireland... just like teh Sunnis and Shiites...

There really isnt that much difference in the two religions aside from that fact that one is reieving more media than the other right now...

[RoadToad]

Roadtoad, thank you, I have not had that good a belly laugh in years. A professed agnostic wanting to debate theology—what a hoot!!

Yeah, I suppose that is pretty ironic. But please understand, the reason I read all I can on the subject of religion is because I believe that the questions religions try to answer - "Why are we here? How did we get here? What happens after we die?" - are the most important questions in the universe.

I think that a short study of the history of Islam, and its desire, aim and attempts for the subjugation of all non-Muslims would show that your limited version and understanding of “convert them or kill them” is the one that is erroneous.

I have done more than a "short study," thank you very much. And it's only fair that if you're going to make such a sweeping, condemnatory statement, that one of the tenets of Islam is "convert them or kill them," you should be ready to provide at least some shred of evidence that what you say is true, which apparently you're unwilling, or unable, to do.

That being said, I have no disagreement with you. Anything that is written, or spoken, including and especially the contents of the Bible and the Koran, is open to interpretation.

So true. No two Muslims interpret the Koran the same way, so why would we agree?

Why else can a Republican and a Democrat listen to a speech by Obama (or any other person) and come away with two very divergent opinions of what was said and/or ment by the exact same words.

Grumpy

For the exact same reason that a UofL fan and a UK fan watching the same basketball game will each believe that the other team committed more fouls. It's called "cognitive bias," and it afflicts all us humans, try as we may to overcome it.

[Grumpy]

Roadtoad, you wrote that: "the reason I read all I can on the subject of religion is because I believe that the questions religions try to answer - "Why are we here? How did we get here? What happens after we die?" - are the most important questions in the universe."

I do not understand why, if a person truely believes in God, they ever ask any of those questions.

Grumpy