Tag: Islam
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Life is a poem
Lewis says in Miracles, “we should prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that all religions are equally true. It must be admitted at once that Christianity makes no concession to this point.” – Chose for the Unchosen – C.S. Lewis website This is what…
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Secular Islamic countries
Too often when people think about Islamic countries they think of those involved in war. Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan. In all these countries, they have religious rulers. Religion rules the state. Europe used to have this too. We burned witches and heretics. We burned, tortured, punished and cleansed. But through things like the French revolution…
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Paradise
Background Reading about Creed because of a future post I want to write about the Nicene creed vs Sermon on the mount led me to the Islamic ‘tie’ Aqidah (as close as it gets to creed). thus the Islamic concept of ʿaqīdah (literally “bond, tie”) is often rendered as “creed”. — Creed, Wikipedia Then with…
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The Word of Gervais
I was pointing out something Ricky Gervais said to a Muslim friend of mine. “You see if we take something like fiction and any holy book, and any other fiction, and destroyed it, okay. In 1000 years’ time that wouldn’t come back just as it is. Whereas if we took every science book and every…
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The tale of Jesus and Judas
One Islamic version of the resurrection reminds me of one of my favourite books – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Spoiler alert: In the book, the hero looks very similar to a man sentenced to the guillotine and takes his place at the end. The Islamic version of the resurrection I’m referring…
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