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posted by
Nautikos
on April 29, 2007 at 2:36 PM
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Naut: Part VI
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel paranoia setting in here.......... --Joy!Mary
posted by
FoliageGold
on April 29, 2007 at 2:32 PM
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Foliage
Men get virgins! And , as was explained to me by a Muslim, God 'repairs' them after each 'encounter'...
There is no special deal for women, no hunks...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 29, 2007 at 7:47 AM
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Naut
This essay is quite the undertaking. My how you must've studied. The virgin part made me wonder too....... As though imbued by sexual promise or something. Odd. --Mary
posted by
FoliageGold
on April 28, 2007 at 7:54 AM
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Wiley
the only problem with following Tim Horton is that he's fattening...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 21, 2007 at 1:46 PM
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proc
it has sometimes even
led to bad behavior...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 21, 2007 at 1:44 PM
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cp
thanks for your extensive comment! I agree fully!
posted by
Nautikos
on March 21, 2007 at 1:43 PM
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Justi
of course, these actions were not in the spirit of Christian thought...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 21, 2007 at 1:42 PM
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Nautikos
How many muslims can dance on the head of a pin? It is all madness and henceforth I shall follow Tim Horton.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 19, 2007 at 10:47 AM
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I believe too many people use religion as an excuse to behave badly.
posted by
proc
on March 19, 2007 at 5:25 AM
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Muhammed, as he called himself, was a deeply conflicted man
The Qu'ran is therefore not entirely vicious, so that some Muslims can find beauty and love in many of the shorter surahs towards the end and gloss over surah 9 and similar surahs with figurative interpretations. Unfortunately, this is largely the province of the minority Sufis, with most Muslims aligning themselves with one side or another of the first conflict of succession to the empire founded on the hateful surahs.
There is no such conflict in Christian scripture. In fact, in starting the Crusades, Pope Urban had to plagiarize the Qu'ran by offering paradise to the Crusaders. If he had been honest about his predicament, Urban would have pointed out that the thoroughly un-Christian behavior of the warlords of Europe would be put to better use dealing with the Moslem threat than in duking it out at home. What people forget is that Urban started out as a peacemaker who was exiled, with the warlord-installed anti-Pope ruling in Rome. With his back against the wall, just like Muhammed, in fact eerily so, Urban sold out his faith to gain temporal power through the exportation of the violence of the local warlords.
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on March 18, 2007 at 8:28 PM
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Nautikos
Yes, my point exactly. Those violent acts of the Crusaders were not Christian acts. They were acts by those who did it in the name of Christianity. Any act not in accordance with the Teachings of the Holy Bible is then no a Christian act. A person having been born again and knowing the person of Jesus would never have called on others to do such a thing. It was all about money and the (so called church of the day)
posted by
Justi
on March 18, 2007 at 1:39 PM
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rich
posted by
Nautikos
on March 18, 2007 at 8:11 AM
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OTA
These and many others! This is only a sampling! Although I do not remember actually reading the number of virgins alloted to us, seventy-two, I have it on good authority (Muslim) that's what I'll get if I am a Muslim martyr!
Incidentally, God will ensure that they will be forever virginal in the same way that he restores the skins of unbelievers frying in Hell, as found in the 4th surah. "We shall give them other skins, so that they may truly taste the scourge. Surely God is mighty and wise." (4:56)
posted by
Nautikos
on March 18, 2007 at 8:11 AM
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Enigmatic
Never fear! My old man didn't raise a snitch! And in any case, Hobbits are very forgiving, especially to their offspring, even if they serve strange food I have never heard of...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 18, 2007 at 7:53 AM
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TAPS
a gorgeous picture, and impressive on other grounds as well. I shall be addressing the issue of committment incidentally...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 18, 2007 at 7:49 AM
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Justi
Well, yes. Of course, we
did once
see a very militant Christianity as well, although that was never demanded by the Bible...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 18, 2007 at 7:46 AM
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naut.
posted by
richinstore
on March 18, 2007 at 7:34 AM
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Naut
are these the pages out of the Koran then that people are referring to about a terrorist going to heaven to be with a number of virgins if they blow them selves up?
posted by
Blue_feathers
on March 18, 2007 at 6:07 AM
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Nautster...
Keep spreading reality! And by the way, You were so right about the word, "Croatian" - But please, don't tell my mom - or she might poison my "sarma", or my "mouna", or my "stuffed peppers!"
posted by
Enigmatic68
on March 18, 2007 at 1:57 AM
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Nautikos
There is something a bit overwhelming about the gathering in concerted prayer five times a day the world over. With that kind of committment, how can Muslims not be the fastest growing religion of our day.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 17, 2007 at 11:49 PM
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Nautikos
I applaude all your work. Is this scary? I would hate to worship a God who wants me to punish, or even to make the judgment on all who do not worship him. The God I worship has never made it mandatory for anyone to worship him or be killed. He makes no demands on anyone in the world to follow him. He invites them. This is scary. Thank you for doing it.
posted by
Justi
on March 17, 2007 at 7:21 PM
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