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RE: Replacing Christianity with Islam
August 19, 2017 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2017 at 1:35 pm by vorlon13.)
Christianity has largely neutered itself with it's incessant schisms, scripture cherry picking and gross and willful ignorance of even its' most basic and fundamental tenets by it's (supposed) adherents.
Islam is still pretty enthusiastic (generally) about disemboweling their heretics, apostates and slackers if they start drawing enough attention. I'd encourage further theological devolution prior to allowing them to regulate, for instance, my fisting and rimming proclivities, among other aspects of societal interactions.
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RE: Replacing Christianity with Islam
August 19, 2017 at 2:27 pm
The question is IMO lacking sufficient naunce to make a decisios - it depends entirely on the specific implementations of Christianity and Islam.
As asked, I'd answer no, but neither of the poll answers is really sufficient so I'm declining to answer. Plus, there's no 'fuck all polls' option.
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RE: Replacing Christianity with Islam
August 19, 2017 at 4:39 pm
(August 19, 2017 at 11:29 am)LastPoet Wrote: In Portuguese we have a saying rougly translated to, if you stick your right index finger and then the left on up your bum and smell it, would it smell differently?
You have a saying for that?
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RE: Replacing Christianity with Islam
August 19, 2017 at 5:06 pm
What we need is a "Nuke them both" option.
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RE: Replacing Christianity with Islam
August 19, 2017 at 6:10 pm
Replace one set of fairy tales with another? Why bother.
Should we replace all the Hans Christian Anderson tales with Grimms tales? That question makes exactly as much sense.
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RE: Replacing Christianity with Islam
August 19, 2017 at 11:27 pm
Theologically they're indistinguishable. Hitchens' observation, however, makes pedophilic priests the lesser of two evils because Islam is still 'young' and in the confident phase of its expansion, it hasn't had a few extra hundred years that Judaism and Xtianity to get jaded and mutate to the number of radical degrees they have.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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