Psp Quran V 4.5

Religion is not a form of mass control in free societies. It is however a form of mass control in countries where religion is the official law of the land.

Now to let some people's ignorance shine.

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Does the old testament come with stones to stone people to death with for speaking of gods other than the Abrahamic one?

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Do you realize that both Islam and Christianity believe in the same Abrahamic God? Where they draw the line is who the prophets were of that same God. So please don't act that they are 2 different Gods worshiped by 2 different religions. Both Jewish and Islamic prophets advocated death for non-believers also. We have come a long way since ancient times and while Judaism and Christianity or any other major religion doesn't advocate death for defectioning to a different religionIslam still does in many countries.

Does this discussion start every time PSP Quran gets updated, or is this the first time? I haven't been keeping up. I thought this was a news forum, not a high school debate club.

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Originally Posted by uberjack

That's why everyone should convert to my religion

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:rofl:

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Originally Posted by gensuke

Actually religion is about keeping people under control.

Anyway if we want to talk about integralism and excesses, when I was working as a contractor in the Kingdoom of Saudi Arabia my religion was illegal and the religious police could enter my house at any hour of day and night without the need to give any explaination: as a different believer I had no rights.

As another extremist example a Syrian friend of mine was sentenced to death because he obtained another citizenship and dropper the Syrian one (he is still abroad and alive).

So the problem is not the religion itself, but the imperfect men interpretating it.

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I didn't say anything about "religion" being the problem.
Or that people wont use anything they can to control what they don't understand.
Understanding is a nice comfortable place.
People don't like to me moved out of their comfort zones.

Not knowing, not understanding drives people mad or pushes them to search for answers... right and wrong...

After reading the responses to this thread its easy to understand why the topic starts wars.

I wish I could be more like my cat... who views me as god, couldn't care less about religion,
but still seems to know more about whats good and whats not without much of a brain to confuse it all.

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1) Yes, I am well aware the concept of a singular Abrahamic god is shared between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but that differing prophets/interpretations lead 'him to being quite different' between the faiths.
Abraham was a guy, it would be pretty disingenuous of him to try to promote 3 different gods for 3 different monotheistic faiths in his lifetime....
It's also pretty hard to miss how the creators of Christianity shoehorned it into the prophecies of the old testament whilst removing some of the less saleable parts.

You will need to illuminate more brightly to shine light on my ignorance.


2)I am atheist, I do not favour one flavour of the Abrahamic god over the other. I dislike them all equally.


That is all you will hear from me on this topic, arguing reason and rationality against blind faith can be an exercise in futility for obvious reasons.

well you are a liar because I live in the kingdom of saudi arabia and people here are nice to foreigners
and if police wants to enter your house they would ring the bell .

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Originally Posted by carpy

Does it come with a Bomb Belt?

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Hooray for the retarded on-the-run racist guy! I cant wait to see how you feel when you get hit by a car because of how you look or what you believe in ;)

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Originally Posted by sonofsamus

Does this discussion start every time PSP Quran gets updated, or is this the first time? I haven't been keeping up. I thought this was a news forum, not a high school debate club.

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Agreed, you guys open too much debate in a thread which does not ask for it

lol, i reckon if you changed this gaming forum over to a religious forum im sure these people in this thread wouldnt mind

wastemans

seriously