There is nothing wrong with requiring justification for believe. Besides that, the "two wrongs" fallacy you've committed here is couched in a...
Anecdotes are not evidence, sir.
No, it doesn't. It makes some sense, and that sense is only if you look at it from the perspective you presented. It could and would make more...
Thanks for clarifying.
Traditions that eating the blood of a god gave followers power/salvation existed in the cult of Osiris and other folk religions in the area. The...
Is it that important?
Not sure what you are accusining me of. The sweeping generalization you made here is not anything to do with what I said. We are talking about...
Neither the Koran in its entirety or the context of the specific subject matter under discussion is about defensive war.
In context, one says that the second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor, while the other says that the second greatest deed is to kill...
This isn't a counterpoint to the point I made.
While I may or disagree with that prospect, it is not even remotely close to anything I claimed in that post. Do you have a point to trying to...
That doesn't really address anything I've brought up, but okay....
By that logic, Christians worship the goddess Minerva.
Well, no, they don't. In fact, Christians create all kinds of excuses to explicitly avoid nearly all of the commandments given by the Jewish god....
What topic are you on?
Fair enough. Neither am I.
My apologies but I don't find those questions useful. What I do find useful is making categorical associations based on how closely two objects...
Then you knew what tribal associations I was making.
The "pre-Islamic" one. When the Kaaba was a house dedicated to Hubal, before anyone made any attempt to identify it with Abraham. Arabs...
They do not. The model for the Christian god is is loosely based on the Jewish god and loosely based on the Greek structure. The model for the...
I'm not sure of the question. I did not make those claims. I said that dieties (should have qualified with "often") dwell in places that are...
I am saying neither. I am saying that the concepts they both use share an approximate origin. However, those concepts deviate from each other to a...
I consider supernatural beings whose actions are not bound by the laws of physics to be divine. If there is a supreme deity, the counterpart is...
Eastern orthodox is the first formal Christian institution. But there is no claim to the foundation of Christianity, unless you are claiming to...
You are basically saying that cheese and milk are the same because they both came from the same cow. They both deviate from the source, but in...
Separate names with a comma.