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In reply to the discussion: The Koran Does Not Forbid Images of the Prophet - Newsweek [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)25. No of course not. The OP is about how some read something into the Quran that isn't there.
I was merely making a comparison as to how some think the Bible says that Jesus was born on Christmas day, when in actuality the Christians hijacked a pagan holiday and made it all about Jesus.
I don't for a minute have a problem with Christians pretending that Christmas is the birth of Christ. But they better not give me a bad time if I call it X-mas.
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Kind of like the Fundy Christians blowing up clinics and killing people because
LiberalArkie
Jan 2015
#3
Kind of like whites killing blacks hoping it will start the proverbial "race riots"
LiberalArkie
Jan 2015
#5
Were you thinking that the attacks were really representative of the faith? Were you?
NYC_SKP
Jan 2015
#36
Might it be that the purpose of castizing the worship of idols, while not prohibitng their imagrey
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#4
Even people that don't believe that Christmas had anything to do with the birth
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#23
Are you comparing the day people celebrate a birth to murdering people over a picture?
joeglow3
Jan 2015
#18
No of course not. The OP is about how some read something into the Quran that isn't there.
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#25
Here is how I interpret the broad religious warnings against "graven images" and why
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2015
#17