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(...) You might have to settle for "Western monotheistic tradition" or a neologism "Abrahamic". Acknowledging our Islamic heritage with an all-inclusive term would have been too painful for Christian cultures which could barely come to acknowledge (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) AcK! I wasn't going to get into timestream cotemporality. But I see that apparently tomorrow night I will...;) Have we just changed history by having this conversation? I wanted to see that, but it went in and out of theatres so (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Like? (...) Anti-logic. Evolution and biblical Special Creation aren't the only two choices. And evolution does not "like" or "dislike" the fossil record (although we all can dream of having every creature that ever lived preserved somehow, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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ObLego follows. (...) It's murky enough. Too bad God is not actually out there to explain himself. Modern religion retroactively rules on these loopholes to say what's OK. The ambiguous hints at what the OT people believed about other deities (and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's strange. Islam stressed on so much that the god is ONE and ONLY (...) Selçuk (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: nor the theory I just came up with now that a giant pink bunny made (...) That's the stuff that makes my brain hurt. I guess that's why I liked the movie Dark City so much. For those who (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I spoke too soon, and you are right, but my point was just that there are many kinds of Christians. Again though, I think you're right. (snipping here, sorry if I cut too much) (...) And that "whoever is not against you is for you" so (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've seen "people of the Book" used, but I doubt if it's an official term. Kevin (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And also... sounds like it's OK to have other Gods "after me" - ie Himself as chief god and then a load of minor ones? I don't remember that being OK <g> Kevin (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It always confuses people when they ask what I "am" and I try to explain it, because the above is almost exactly what I have to say (save the religious part--ask me again when I'm over 30 and I'm sure I'll have that in there too). Sometimes (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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