From: snex Date: 2009-02-26T05:29:17+09:00 Subject: Re: What is the Qur’ân? On Feb 25, 2:19 pm, Tom Cloyd wrote: > snex wrote: > > On Feb 25, 1:53 pm, Phlip wrote: > > >>> this crap spam is not a well meaning effort to dispel myths about > >>> islam, it is intended to convert the world to their delusions. > > >> Then if the Quran is a powerless work of fiction, why do you fear it? > > >> You sound like the OP - someone desperately trying to convince themselves... > > > i fear it? LOL. show me any fear in my posts. > > > no, i dont fear some silly book written by a barbaric pedophile from > > the desert. i simply dont like spam and will not put up with it. > > Then attack the spamming, not the religion. Islam is a major world > religion, with some very high moral ideals. If my own culture weren't so > colossally ignorant of other people and their cultures and religions, it > - and possibly you - would already know this. Again, get your damned > facts straight. you should read the quran sometime. you might change your opinion of its "high moral ideals." of course, you could also see how moral most muslims are by just turning on the news sometime. they scream for the deaths of cartoonists, they commit honor killings, and they hijack airplanes and fly them into skyscrapers. > > As for Mohamed's purported marriage to a 6 year old, do you not know > that "marriage" means many things in many cultures, and that betrothal > of children in marriage is a rather common cultural trait, AND that the > custom in  virtually all cases of which I know (I have a Masters in > Cultural Anthropology) is that child is reared by its family until puberty? why dont you tell us what "marriage" meant back then in that culture then? by the way, it is also stated that the marriage was consummated when she was 9. but youll just pretend that means something else too, wont ya? and dont forget, this is all coming from a guy who claims to hold the objective morality given to him by god himself. citing cultural differences as excuses for his moral failings only further weakens their position. > > No slack, buddy. The more you write, the more you screw up. Time to go > study up a bit. You could use it. then quit responding to me. you are only giving the spam more prominence.