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I'm an atheist. Looking forward to your answers!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ only meant to quote the first line in DD's post
Right, but he was making scientific/historical claims, so that won't quite cut it. :D
I'll consider any source reliable that presents a sound argument. I am asking about the original Quranic manuscript. Does it exist to this day?...
Are you saying the Big Bang Theory origniated with the Quran?
No, they all adapt. Some don't adapt enough to survive, but they all adapt.
This is where I disagree with you. The inherent nature of Islam is not isolated from its evolution. The two are one in the same. Religion, like...
Undo burden on whom? No single person speaks for all of Islam, nor does any single body. In an institution as diverse as Islam, there can't be a...
Exactly. Religion, like everything else, adapts to its environment.
I'm really just starting to study this stuff, so give me a little slack if I make an incorrect statement. My (limited) understanding is that...
You can't generalize the opinions of 2 practitioners to the whole religion, especially with one as big as Islam. The Bible says insubordinate...
Interesting stuff, but really irrelevant to my point. Originally, I was responding to the back-and-forth on whether Islam was a violent religion....
You said that the Quran is as authentic as "any text we know today." Do you seriously believe that? If so, where are the "original" copies of...
Right on, man! Only 5-year-olds read their speeches!
Are you saying that 9/11 was orchestrated by the government? If so, could you present the single best piece of evidence you have for this...
This is just wrong. We have original manuscripts and complete revision histories for countless modern texts. The earliest Islamic texts weren't...
It doesn't matter how popular it is. It exists. It is as much a subset of Islam as any other sect. To Wahabbi practitioners, it is the other...
Who gets to say which is the correct interpretation? Doesn't the fact that the Wahabbi sect exists dispute your claim of a consensus-based legal...
I LOL'd... ... ...cuz I'm high.