(April 26, 2017 at 8:16 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I don't know how this is related to Islam; it's cultural in the core and a matter of personal preference.
Islam allowed, but didn't encourage it; rather encouraged interracial relationships:
Sura 49, Page 517, The Quran:
( 13 ) O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.
Atlas, between you and MK you try to argue without the romance, but even without that what you fail to see, and even NEO and Steve and any Jew and Buddhist and Hindu, is quite simple. That was then, this is now.
Everyone quotes their holy writings. Everyone quotes their heros. Everyone quotes their histories. Everyone tries to debunk science and when they cant do that tries to retrofit science to point to their club.
Sura....verse yada
John/Mark/Luke verse yada
Buddha said yada
Torah Talmud yada
Baghavad Gita/Vedas yada
In my 16 years of online debate I have yet to see one follower of any religion make a unique argument. Sure the details are different but the argument always boils down to "I got it right and everybody else is wrong".
I am the outsider looking at all of them saying, "Hey guys, maybe your claims are way past their sell by date?"
