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OP - May 30, 2009, 06:48 PM

Went for a walk in cornmarket street, oxford, today and found three groups preaching.

Jehovas witnesses'
Fundie Christians
Muslims.

I talked to each. The Jehovas wouldn't let me get a word in.

The Christian Fundy almost cried and told me about how the Holy Spirit had spoken to him.

The Muslim told me that God is one and Islam is the answer to mankind's problems. When I asked him about Hell and showed I had a great deal of knowledge about Islam and spoke Arabic (which he didn't) he became agitated and angry and started ranting. At which point I said good bye.

I can't believe these people.

Peddling utter bullshit in crowds of innocent people on a sunny day.
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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #1 - May 30, 2009, 07:12 PM

Wot? No Hare Krishna?

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Reply #2 - May 30, 2009, 07:18 PM

Quote from: Hassan on May 30, 2009, 06:48 PM
Went for a walk in cornmarket street, oxford, today and found three groups preaching.

Jehovas witnesses'
Fundie Christians
Muslims.

I talked to each. The Jehovas wouldn't let me get a word in.

The Christian Fundy almost cried and told me about how the Holy Spirit had spoken to him.

The Muslim told me that God is one and Islam is the answer to mankind's problems. When I asked him about Hell and showed I had a great deal of knowledge about Islam and spoke Arabic (which he didn't) he became agitated and angry and started ranting. At which point I said good bye.

I can't believe these people.

Peddling utter bullshit in crowds of innocent people on a sunny day.

You know that you are making a muslim feel uncomfortable when they start ranting and getting angry!

I have always found jehovah's witnesses funny. I remember once, they came to my house and asked me what religion I was and I replied that I was Muslim. And they said "Did you know that we have a lot more in common with Islam than with Christianity?" I was thinking "Really? Or are you just full of shit, trying to get me to join you?".

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Reply #3 - May 30, 2009, 08:44 PM

The Muslim guy got really upset when I started quoting Qur'an to him and explained things he didn't understand. he started leaning closer to me in an aggressive way, but I just looked him in the eye and he backed off. He was a total wanker but is an Imam of a mosque - how sad!
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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #4 - May 30, 2009, 08:59 PM

Quote from: Hassan on May 30, 2009, 08:44 PM
He was a total wanker but is an Imam of a mosque - how sad!

Well there you go.
Funny him being an imam if he doesn't understrand Arabic, because I'll bet he'd be the first to claim that anyone criticuising the Quran just didn't understand the original Arabic.

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Reply #5 - May 30, 2009, 09:01 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on May 30, 2009, 08:59 PM
Quote from: Hassan on May 30, 2009, 08:44 PM
He was a total wanker but is an Imam of a mosque - how sad!

Well there you go.
Funny him being an imam if he doesn't understrand Arabic, because I'll bet he'd be the first to claim that anyone criticuising the Quran just didn't understand the original Arabic.

I second that motion.

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Reply #6 - May 30, 2009, 09:36 PM

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The Christian Fundy almost cried and told me about how the Holy Spirit had spoken to him.

Ha ha, what a weirdo.

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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #7 - May 31, 2009, 04:08 PM

Salvation Army in Birmingham City Centre Today:

"God loves you so much, that he has your name written on his hand so that he will never forget you!"

I thought he was omnipotent. And even if he wasn't omnipotent, if he loved me that much, why would he need to look at his hand to remember who I was?

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Reply #8 - May 31, 2009, 04:16 PM

Quote from: aliadiere on May 31, 2009, 04:08 PM
Salvation Army in Birmingham City Centre Today:

"God loves you so much, that he has your name written on his hand so that he will never forget you!"

I thought he was omnipotent. And even if he wasn't omnipotent, if he loved me that much, why would he need to look at his hand to remember who I was?

He must be going senile with his old age

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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #9 - May 31, 2009, 04:46 PM

Quote from: aliadiere on May 30, 2009, 07:18 PM
I have always found jehovah's witnesses funny. I remember once, they came to my house and asked me what religion I was and I replied that I was Muslim. And they said "Did you know that we have a lot more in common with Islam than with Christianity?" I was thinking "Really? Or are you just full of shit, trying to get me to join you?".

JWs don't believe Jesus was God, and don't believe in a Trinity. They take the bible very literally and as a set of rules like Judaism/Islam (though not as literal I think) - so it is an arguable point.

They do use the Christian bible as their sourcebook however.
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Reply #10 - May 31, 2009, 04:55 PM

Ah, street preaching. I remember 2 summers ago, there was a preacher in Birmingham City Centre. He gave me a pamphlet which looked Islamic; I accepted and walked on. Later that day, I had a chance to read that pamphlet and to my disbelief I found that it was against Islam. Instead of calling people towards Islam, it was instead calling people towards Christianity. I threw the paper away; my blood boiling.

I walked down the same street a few hours later to catch my train home. The preacher was still there, stood upon a wooden box, brandishing a bookand talking. I stopped and walked over to him. For nearly an hour I tried to make him understand that what he was criticising Islam for was out of context; it isn't right to take an Ayah and then only use half of it to make a point as the entire message conveyed in the point is included in what precedes and proceeds it. I remember attracting support from the most unusual of places; a pagan worshipper accused Christianity of persecuting his beliefs and fellow believers.

I walked past the same preacher 4 months ago and recalled my encounter. I was amazed as to how radically different my views were to his. Although I still do not support his approach to making people rethink Islam's teachings (i.e. being selective in quotating scripture), I am united with him in disowning Islam.
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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #11 - May 31, 2009, 05:32 PM

Hassan, tell us more about the non-Arabic speaking Imaam. What were you talking with him about? What verse were you quoting and why?

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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #12 - May 31, 2009, 06:27 PM

You should have asked the christian if he admired the work of Sonseed. Marvellous singalong we had today, if only we'd recorded it - 'Zap!'

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Reply #13 - May 31, 2009, 07:25 PM

Quote from: aliadiere on May 31, 2009, 04:08 PM
Salvation Army in Birmingham City Centre Today:

"God loves you so much, that he has your name written on his hand so that he will never forget you!"

I thought he was omnipotent. And even if he wasn't omnipotent, if he loved me that much, why would he need to look at his hand to remember who I was?

Which part of the Bible did they get that from?

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Reply #14 - May 31, 2009, 07:36 PM

Quote from: Cheetah on May 31, 2009, 07:25 PM
Which part of the Bible did they get that from?

I don't know, I haven't heard that one either! I think they were salvation army anyway, because they had a brass band

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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #15 - May 31, 2009, 08:00 PM

I'd say they just pulled that one out of their ass. It sounds silly too, like God tying a knot in his handkerchief in case he forgets something.

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Re: Cornmarket Street
Reply #16 - May 31, 2009, 10:49 PM

Quote from: Cheetah on May 31, 2009, 07:25 PM
Which part of the Bible did they get that from?

The part that is attached to the sphinctre muscle.
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