History of God

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Re: History of God
Reply #30 - March 24, 2011, 10:18 PM

Quote from: BlackDog on March 24, 2011, 10:03 PM
Parasites are beautiful

No they're not.
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Re: History of God
Reply #31 - March 24, 2011, 10:20 PM

Some are, like a fig tree.

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Re: History of God
Reply #32 - March 24, 2011, 10:23 PM

Quote from: Ephemeral on March 24, 2011, 10:20 PM
Some are, like a fig tree.

No.
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Re: History of God
Reply #33 - March 24, 2011, 10:24 PM

Beautiful Parasite

Beautiful

On second thoughts, its putting me off my custard donut. I'll put it behind a link.

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Re: History of God
Reply #34 - March 24, 2011, 10:26 PM

@ishina god thats nasty, is it a tapeworm? doesnt look like one

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Re: History of God
Reply #35 - March 24, 2011, 10:35 PM

Quote from: debunker on March 24, 2011, 09:03 PM
see the verse before it... Baal was mentioned by prophet Elias... (Elias = Elijah?)

As far as I know, Ibn Arabi equated Ilyas and Idris (so Elias and Enoch)

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Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
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Reply #36 - March 24, 2011, 10:36 PM

Quote from: Ephemeral on March 24, 2011, 10:26 PM
(Clicky for piccy!)

Yuck!
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Re: History of God
Reply #37 - March 24, 2011, 11:18 PM

Quote from: Zebedee on March 24, 2011, 10:00 PM
Yeah, that old chestnut. The world is beautiful therefore what Jesus/Allah/Yahweh said is true. Funny that the Qur'an uses this argument, and, significantly, never mentions diseases, famine, drought, etc, as evidences for His existence. Odd indeed that the All-Wise used an argument that even the simplest of religionists use, particularly when they haven't really thought it through.

Makes me think that even if the Qur'an were inspired, at least some of it would have to be Muhammad's (or someone else's) words.

you miss the point. Even with the assumption that Muhammed was an imposter, the argument was still very good. The default assumption was the Creator God exists (everyone, at least among arabs, agreed t this), now if you claim there are other deities, then produce the evidence they exist, that was one of the Quranic arguments against polytheism. Atheists took this a bit further by changing the default assumption to the non-existence of God, yet they still use the very same argument: produce an evidence for thy claim!

Actually the Quran does mention all the bad bits too.

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Re: History of God
Reply #38 - March 24, 2011, 11:21 PM

Quote from: z10 on March 24, 2011, 10:35 PM
As far as I know, Ibn Arabi equated Ilyas and Idris (so Elias and Enoch)

interesting.

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