RE: Show me your definition of GOD(s).
April 26, 2013 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2013 at 3:35 pm by lordxenu.)
(April 25, 2013 at 8:36 pm)Dawud Wrote: Muslim scholarship holds God to be without gender...
Never has and rejects this concept...
In Arabic, God is referenced to with male pronouns.
(April 25, 2013 at 6:42 pm)whateverist Wrote: I'm also curious why you, Lord Xenu, count yourself as an atheist now. Had you been a Muslim before and if your were, had you believed it all on the literal level? Perhaps you have an intro thread I should read. (Welcome to the forum by the way and thanks again for the thoughtful reply.)
At some point in my life I used to be a Christian then a Muslim, then at 17 I gave it all up. Who knew books would do that to you?
I never believed in literal Islam. At the same time I never had read the whole Koran. I used to trully believe that there were scientific miracles in the Koran. But as I read more and more, I realized that such claims were not unique to Islam and its book.
I learned that all religions had evolved from something else. All religious books have errors and inconsistencies.
I just grew up I suppose.
To answer a previous question, yes God is supposed to be without gender (just like bacteria). But Arabic only has male and female pronouns. There's no "it" in Arabic.
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." - Epicurus