Putin tells reporter to 'get circumcised'

ABC News ^ | 11/12/02 | staff

[stuartcr]

I said....'Absolutely correct, when it comes to religions, and God, and things metaphysical, no one knows what is true'.... and you said bulls..., so I asked if you new the truth about these things, not what is good, just, wrong, or unjust. What did your bullsh.... mean?

[Aquinasfan]

If you ever develop an interest in the truth you might want to check out this site.

[Terriergal]

I guessed that.

http://www.letusreason.org/Islam10.htm

http://www.islamonline.net/askaboutislam/display.asp?hquestionID=2779

http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1115/p18s1-lire.html

Five articles of faith

Islamic teachings include five foundational beliefs:

1. One unique, infinite, all-powerful and merciful God (Allah) is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. Everything is contingent upon God, including all of nature. Yet there is nothing like Him - an unqualified difference exists between the divine and the human. Man is God's creature, created out of clay, and orthodox Muslims have criticized Islamic mystics for affirming their experiences of oneness with God. The Koran gives 99 names for God, but His essence is unknowable.

[Terriergal]

So you know the truth about God, our soul, what happens after death, etc?

http://www.snapshotsofgod.com/

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You think that no one culture is superior to another and that all religions have an equal number of bad seeds who hurt other people. Your response to my criticism of your belief was to post some nonsense how only God knows. I say bulls-it. I know right from wrong. I'm sorry you have a hard time with it.

[A. Pole]

They will choose the way they are. Good people choose good, evil people choose evil. It's in the person, not the tenets of their religion. What you said is a perfect example of why I am so against any organised religion. It doesn't allow for people to think individually. Just as you choose Christianity, and the fact that modern day Christianity doesn't propose smiting your enemies, or burning witches anymore, it nevertheless makes you choose accordingly.

You are not very logical. First you are saying that it is person and not beliefs and next you blame the religious beliefs.

Just to remind you, it is you atheists and secularists who killed the largest number of people in history. So by undermining/eradicating religion you are increasing the chance for the next Gulag.

[duckman]

All of a sudden Puntin is a 'Moyle'. Don't quit your day job.

[stuartcr]

That is the truth as you believe it to be. If it is the truth, why hasn't everyone, throughout history, believed the same?

[Terriergal]

Yeah but if they do they'll incur death threats most likely, like anyone else who speaks against Islam when they previously practiced it. Like Salman Rushdie and Ergun Caner (and his brothers) who left Islam.

[Terriergal]

I remember my husband talking to a friend of his who was trying to do a paper on "truth is in the eye of the beholder." Wonder how it turned out?

[stuartcr]

Well good, I learned something. Does this make me a Muslim?

[Squantos]

Are we sure this wasn't like Kennedy's I'm a doughnut speech in Berlin ?:o)

Stay Safe !

[Terriergal]

That would naturally give rise to the question of "how do you know those things? From where/with whom do those definitions originate?"

[Terriergal]

Yes. I don't have to work hard at being mean. It comes quite easily. But that doesn't mean that I plan to do the easy thing. In fact, I work at the opposite.

Much like (to use a tired cliche) sitting in a boat on a river. If I don't work at it, the river will carry me downstream to the waterfall. I can't hope to get upstream without rowing.

[stuartcr]

Why did you send me that link? I have always had a belief in one God, creator of all.

[Terriergal]

Oh come now, he's being civil, you can too.

[Terriergal]

If it is the truth, why hasn't everyone, throughout history, believed the same?

Because we're not the Borg.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Oh, I understand that the question of what do you base your beliefs on will arise...Let me just put it to you like this: I believe in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness so long as they do not interfere with the rights of others. I believe that people should treat others in the same manner they would want to be treated. (does not apply to practioners of S&M) Cultures, religions and people who do not believe or live this are inferior. It's really not that complicated.

[Terriergal]

Well good, I learned something. Does this make me a Muslim?

Nope.

[stuartcr]

I never said anyones culture is better than any others. I know what I like, and I wouldn't trade my current American culture for any other in history. I know right from wrong also, what has that to do with someones religious beliefs?