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To: James C. Bennett
I'm glad to hear you're consistent. ;o)

My point was more towards the renown atheists - people like Hitchens and Dawkins. Have they made it a practice to conduct formal debates with prominent Muslims? How about Buddhists or Hindis? Have any of them written books criticizing polytheistic religions like they have the monotheistic Christian faith? I don't believe I have ever heard or seen them do so, so it does bring up the question of why, don't you think?

2,724 posted on 06/10/2011 8:00:49 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums; kosta50; LeGrande; Godzilla
My point was more towards the renown atheists - people like Hitchens and Dawkins. Have they made it a practice to conduct formal debates with prominent Muslims? How about Buddhists or Hindis? Have any of them written books criticizing polytheistic religions like they have the monotheistic Christian faith? I don't believe I have ever heard or seen them do so, so it does bring up the question of why, don't you think?

You really should read more. Here are some videos to help, for starters:

Christopher Hitchens on Islam: http://youtu.be/an7TaDQ5Yo0

Christopher Hitchens on Islam in Britain: http://youtu.be/k-PxRDt49FA

Hitchens Schools a Muslim on Free Speech: http://youtu.be/J7aS7m3odqI

Christopher Hitchens on Child Abuse in Islam: http://youtu.be/jt_diqi2vB0

Hitchens Nails an Apologist for Islam and Jehad: http://youtu.be/9F8vgwBiKl0

Dawkins and Hitchens on the Mormon Religion: http://youtu.be/Q2I1Ogk2BmQ

Richard Dawkins Interviews a Jewish Convert to Islam: http://youtu.be/-8b3vhTO248

Richard Dawkins: "Islam Is A Great Evil": http://youtu.be/LhYus6TiGEE

Richard Dawkins: How to Debate a Muslim: http://youtu.be/VselUW4Aoxg

Geert Wilders: "Islam is a Fascist Ideology": http://youtu.be/vYD6BGrB9nE

Geert Wilders' Fitna: http://youtu.be/BgQdZgojOFI

(Geert Wilder has received death threats for this movie about Islam.)

And then we have Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, all ex-Muslims, critical of Islam, with each of them receiving death threats.

You really should quit making bogus, empty, unjustified judgments about these people.

Bearing false witness is wrong. Have you forgotten that?

2,732 posted on 06/10/2011 8:35:56 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: boatbums; James C. Bennett
How about Buddhists or Hindis?

I'm sure it's an inadvertent slip, however, the meta-religion Sanatana Dharma is HindU while the Indo-European language is HindI

Both are derived from the Persian translation of Sindhu (for the Indus river) -- as the "S" sound in Sanskrit becomes "H" in Farsi

Incidently, Hindi is Prakrit mixed liberally with Persian, hence terms like darwaza which is Farsi

2,955 posted on 06/11/2011 11:53:51 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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To: boatbums; James C. Bennett
bb: How about Buddhists or Hindis? Have any of them written books criticizing polytheistic religions like they have the monotheistic Christian faith?

Read up on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Vinoba Bhave or Baba Amte -- I've not read amte, but the others are pretty critical of various aspects of hinduism

Besides, Hinduism, strictly speaking is not strictly polytheistic

hinduism being a meta-religion includes polytheism, monotheism (with the belief in Ishwara and many Shaivites believing that Shiva is the purest form of Ishwara, ditto for Vaishnavites), pantheism and athiesm -- it is a meta-religion like SGML

2,957 posted on 06/11/2011 11:57:43 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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To: boatbums; kosta50
bb: I have just never read a post from him that made me think he wasn't orthodox on Christian doctrines of Jesus Christ.

Really? Even when a poster says things like Jesus Christ was persecuted and died - that is the only focus for a Christian

only a Moslem or another who denies Christ was God would forget that for a Christian, the fact that Jesus Christ died, ROSE FROM THE DEAD and ascended into Heaven is the focus. Not just a dead Christ

That's not orthodox on Christian doctrines at all...

2,958 posted on 06/11/2011 11:59:32 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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