Cheerful Charlie Wrote: If Allah has the power to make all believe and does not exercise that power to make all men believe and be saved from eternal torment in Hell, Allah then is not as proclaimed, merciful, compassionate or good. The Quran then is self contradictory and false.
Not if you redefine "compassionate" or "good", which is what religious people do.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
