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In reply to the discussion: Why religion is fading in the West [View all]Yorktown
(2,884 posts)128. Again, you are (un?)voluntarily blind.
Yes, thank you very much, I am aware of the 5 'pillars' of Islam. But those pillars hide an unpleasant truth =
1 Testimony, 2 Prayer, 3 Alms-giving, 4 Fasting, and 5 Pilgrimage as pillars are not the highway to heaven.
Jihad is. As said by muhamad himself, as recorded in the hadiths. Do you know them, or do I get them for you?
And your comment about my point on islamic jihad was extremely dihonest.
Evidently, most muslims do not have the time or inclination to belong in person to a jihadi group.
Nor was it what I said. What I said was that when violent islamists pick a name like "Islamic Jihad" or equivalent,
they do so to be understood by the masses. Masses whose main understanding of the word jihad is a violent one.
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The current crop of "religious" leadership is not in becomeing with "religions'" proposed purpose
randr
May 2015
#2
"That is hair spliting...the fact is that atheism basic principle is materialism."
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#34
belief that matter is all there is is the basis of the belief that god could not exist
AlbertCat
May 2015
#94
That is because you think they should have written for a 20th century audience.
zeemike
May 2015
#56
The point of my post was the remarkably pithy yet vacuous summary of Spinoza's philosophic writings.
LTX
May 2015
#91
I find this a curious response. You seem unwilling to commit yourself to any vehicle for
LTX
May 2015
#145
You mean like calling scientific theories "magic" and part of our atheist "belief system"?
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#102
I'm blind because I corrrect your errors? You have an odd way of advancing a conversation.
Nitram
May 2015
#127
Wasn't your point that violent jihad is part of the famework of the beliefs of all Muslims?
Nitram
May 2015
#133
Light and sound are both waves, so it's stupid easy to convert one to the other
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#15
The claim that the historicity of somebody resembling the jesus of the gospels
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#12
a basic, fundamental tenant of christianity is that the man-god was sacrificed
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#24
My understanding of christianity is based on the historic origins of christianity
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#84
I was just gonna say, there's a Gnostic church down the road from my house.
Act_of_Reparation
May 2015
#146