[geeks] OW.

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:33:27PM -0500, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >On 3/8/02 10:45 AM, "David Cantrell" <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> >> They believe that Christians and Jews have 'fallen from grace' because
> >> living up to the standards set in the scriptures is damned hard to do.
> >> Forget all that crap about it being deliberately perverted.  They also
> >> believe that whilst Christians and Jews are not as insanely great as
> >> Moslems, they are still "people of the book" and to be respected.
> Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all wide-ranging, both now, and
> especially over the centuries. Making statements about "They believe..."
> is very error prone.

Uh-huh.  I was ignoring the extremists.  Fuck knows what they believe, but
for any extremist of $religion{FOO}, their beliefs seem to have little to do
with the scriptures of $religion{FOO}.

> That bit about "People of the book" is true, but again not absolutely
> cut-and-dry. If I understand correctly, "People of the Book" originally
> meant the three religions that recognized the stories of Abraham & Moses
> as being divine. Since then it has, at times, included other unrelated
> monotheistic beliefs. I doubt this is mainstream though.

[thinks] Zoroastrianism and Bahai?  And yes, that ain't mainstream.  The
Quran states that Jews and Christians are "people of the book" and doesn't
say anything about any others.

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David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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