RE: Why do Atheists defend Islam?
December 14, 2015 at 4:00 am
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2015 at 4:29 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 14, 2015 at 1:20 am)Amine Wrote: I'm not saying Jesus wasn't crazy or whatever. That's far from a direct call to violence though.
Nor did I say it was. It is, however, the logical conclusion.
(December 14, 2015 at 1:20 am)Amine Wrote: Yeah, and then you ignored the 2 reasons I gave as to why it isn't really cherry picking.
Except that in a book filled with contradictory verses, choosing one which contradicts another is, by definition, cherry-picking.
It is the same cherry-picking done by Christians and Jews, and for the same reasons: the believer chooses those verses which best compliment the believer's outlook.