[Quranic Reflection]: moon absorbed by the sun in the Quran: far future.

[WinterHold]

Oh, we're long past wondering whether our friend Winter gets some validation from our little community.  Obviously I pick at him for it - but to one extent or another we're all here for that, or getting that from being here.  That believers are willing to twist themselves into a giant gordian knot to maintain their belief is unremarkable - and I'm familiar with the experience...we're all familiar with the experience.  

We can grant, to anyone, for anything, the notion that - if we believed what they did about a magic book - we might believe in a god.  What I hope that Winter gets from hanging out with apostates and heretics and other assorted undesirables like us, is that this bnelief in magic books and gods isn;t really the or any underlying justification for their religious beliefs.

They believe those things for reason unrelated to whether they get their interpretation of a magic book right, or whether the book is actually magic.  They should lead with that, if they want to explain the actual reasons for their beliefs.  Particularly and especially if they, as they and we all invariably do, wish to have more people assume and share those beliefs.

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@BrianSoddingBoru4

Don't even get me started on the sophisticated and very specific intelligence network that the o at d represented, lol.  I will bore the living shit out of anyone alive ranting about that one.

You should know by now that a validation from you doesn't quite interest me, haven't you see this verse?

Sura 12, The Quran:
https://quran.com/12/103?translations=

(103) And most people will not believe—no matter how keen you are— 

So you're contradicting yourself if you thought that I'm waiting for people to believe, I'm actually expecting the other thing. But I do what I do for myself:

Sura 31, The Quran:
https://quran.com/31/12?translations=

(12) Indeed, We blessed Luqmân with wisdom, ˹saying˺, “Be grateful to Allah, for whoever is grateful, it is only for their own good. And whoever is ungrateful, then surely Allah is Self-Sufficient, Praiseworthy.”1