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09-14-2010, 03:57 PM | #48 |
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Young Earth creationists don't think it's so obvious. They go to great lengths to argue that "the evening and the morning" of Genesis chapter 1 refers to a twenty-four hour period.
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Personally, I am not religious in any way, shape or form, but I would not burn or deface the Koran, the Bible or any other religious tome. It's just bad manners and unnecessarily inflammatory. |
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09-14-2010, 04:44 PM | #50 |
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09-14-2010, 04:51 PM | #51 |
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Sure, why not? if it came pre-loaded and I had no plans to read it why shouldn't I? Burning and deleting are two different things. Burning a book is a statement. Deleting it is a practical use of space. I wouldn't burn it...unless I was cold and stranded and had no other fuel.
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09-14-2010, 05:10 PM | #52 |
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I asked for a Koran once as a Christmas present, so don't count me in the book burners. Aside of that, where books are burnt it's only a matter of time before people are burnt too, or so Hesse said.
What must be really challenging is formatting a Koran in Arabic. It is a book which is said to rely very heavily on calligraphy and typesetting to be able to apprehend its whole beauty. Given that the calligraphic quality is not any ebook's forte, it may be hard for a learned Koran reader to get used to the electronic format. |
09-14-2010, 05:12 PM | #53 | |
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For the record, I think these young Earth creationists are interpreting Genesis chapter one correctly. I don't believe the Priestly author who penned that account was speaking figuratively. The Bible has the science wrong, that much is obvious, but these fundamentalists are interpreting the text as it was intended to be understood. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 09-14-2010 at 05:20 PM. |
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09-14-2010, 05:19 PM | #54 | |
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It wasn't that many centuries ago that everybody knew that the earth wasn't the centre of the universe. The number of people that believe something is no indication whatsoever of its veracity. |
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09-14-2010, 05:21 PM | #55 |
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I'd be willing to delete it. . .
But in my mind, there is a difference between burning a book and deleting (or even tossing a book away). Burning is an almost universal intentional act of disrespect, that's why the members of that 'Church of Moronicy Now' down in Florida are such buttwipes. (As are the muslims who burn bibles or other holy books)
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.....People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus] who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth. ..........— Martin Luther (1483-1546), Father of the Reformation. Quoted in Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, pt. I, ch. VI. But I fear we are drifting more than a little off-topic here. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 09-14-2010 at 05:36 PM. |
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At the point I post my reply the poll seems to be running in favor of those who would delete the Koran. As the question is "would" rather than "did you" I think even those who don't currently have a copy, like me, can legitimately respond. What I don't understand is the response of those who would delete something they chose to download. It seems akin to the burning of books. I do understand if you've read it and are finished with it and will not return to it. But we shouldn't fear the written word. As a Unitarian we honor many different paths to faith and try to take the best from each. |
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Hypothetical Scenario: Islamic fundamentalists make death threats against Amazon executives and staff unless Amazon release the names and details of all Kindle user's who have deleted a copy of the Koran.
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At its worst, the Bible is as bad as the Quran. But the average page of the Quran seems, to me, to incite hostility towards those outside the religion a lot more often than the average page of the Bible. I just did a web search with randomly chosen translations, and found that the word hell appears 14 times in the Bible (New International Version) but 97 times in the much shorter Quran (M.H. Shakir translation), providing objective support for my subjective impression. It seems to me that eternal torture is at least as bad as temporary torture here on earth. Don't get me wrong about the issue, through. Even repetitive, poorly organized, books advocating torture should nonetheless go unburnt and (if the motive is spite) undeleted. And of course there are vast numbers of Muslims who find the Quran a much more humanitarian book than I do, and act in accordance with its nicer themes. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 09-14-2010 at 09:57 PM. |
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09-14-2010, 10:39 PM | #60 | |
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But the instances of "hell" in the OT in the KJV are historical revisionism-- the OT Hebrews hadn't invented the concept of "hell" as we know it yet-- they believed in "sheol", the dark underworld where everyone went after death. "Hell" as a place of punishment for the non-chosen is new to the NT. So of course, with a few hundred more years to refine the concept, the Koran would have more references to "hell." |
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