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(...) Christians (...) I'm not sure what the Crusades has to do with my statement. Oh, wait, I think you are reading it as two seperate statements. The Muslims converted all those except Jews and Christians by the sword because they were followers (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Love your line of thought! I've never heard of this before but that's very reasonable... After all, God killed him after about a few minutes... ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) - (...) to (...) See what I mean? If you mean the proto-birds, that's not true (your source, please). If you mean something else, you'll have to clue me in since I mention no other specific example and neither do you. Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) An MP reference... :) --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey, that's also what happened with Mark Twain's _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, from what I heard on a PBS program... --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "ibid" is a bibliographical term that means, roughly "same book, but from this page instead". I don't know offhand the entymological background, but I bet Mirriam-Webster does... <hunt hunt> Yep. "ib" or "ibid" is an abbreviation of ibedum, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually the ten commandments are strictly a part of judaism. The are reiterated in the New Testament as moral principles and are summed in Jesus' statement that all the Law and the Prophets are summed up in two: love the Lord and love your (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know. I just look at all the posts to see if I spot anything interesting. (...) I can see it now. Angels and the devil as board pieces, Go To Hell cards, Limbo instead of Free Parking, etc. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No no no. There was the tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. They at from the first one, and were kicked out so that they wouldn't eat from the second one and become immortal. They weren't kicked out for becoming knowledgeable as we usually (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) reproduce (...) the (...) before (...) These were also admitted to be a hoax shortly after being released. Bill (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If don't read lugnet.off-topic.debate, then God's monopoly of Lugnet will magically disappear. Neat how that works. James (URL) an aside: When I first saw the message title, I thought: "Neat idea, but would Hasbro ever dare?" ;) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right... although IANAM (1) either, I did live in Israel in which Islam is the second most popular religion. I remember learning about Islam two years ago and taking a field trip to the near Misgad (temple, name in english = ?). That sentence (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you kidding? This is the most exciting God talk I've read. There's alot of perspective I've never seen before. Maybe Lego minds are of "a different spirit." Anyhoo, I degress from off topic. Er... God Bless Markus (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What must be clear is that at the time, many deities were worshipped by all of the Jew's neighbors. What the 1st commandment says is basically (my interpretation) that you shan't believe in these so called 'gods' and worship them. So he (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. Erin, while I can understand some frustration about vast threads of controversy, it's relevant to note that this conversation is happening exactly where it's supposed to: lugnet.OFF-TOPIC.debate (emphasis mine). Quoting relevant text: (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.council)
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I dunno/don't care. He apparently does have a monopoly on LUGNET at the moment. Someone please wake me when it gets back to Lego topics. Oh yeah, Thanks to everyone that checked out my Eiffel tower and signed my guestbook! (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Both of you got it about half right (about the Muslims, that is). The Muslims did force people to convert, but only people who believed in dieties and/or held polytheistic beliefs. They DID NOT force Jews or Christians to convert, in fact they (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, but where do you draw the distinction between Jewish by heritage and Jewish by religion? I'm Jewish by lineage, but I am not Jewish by religion. Are all heritage-Jewish people in Isreal automatically assumed to be religion-Jewish? If not, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ?!? What were the Crusades about, then? Historically speaking, Muslims have invariably been better neighbors than Christians, at least in terms of religious co-existance. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No no no no no... :-, God basically told Adam and Eve, "eat of any of the fruit in the garden, except for the fruit of *that* tree over there, or you'll die, so don't even touch it" (i.e. eating the forbidden fruit made them mortal.) To which (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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