@iMorsii_@AnkhEAMM@9mmScorpion@ElNahhasKamal1 Hypocrite, you're doing the exact thing you accuse extremists of, not taking context into consideration. This is only one little piece of an overarching message of the Quran, in how muslims are supposed to relate to non-muslims.
@9mmScorpion@AnkhEAMM@iMorsii_@ElNahhasKamal1 "It is facts that OT and NT are more violent than the Quran text for text."
This is the lowest tier of textual hermeneutics possible, making it a question of statistics. A text might have certain imagery, but it's not necessarily to be read and understood literally.
@StevenDeLay4 I struggle with these things as a layman, separating the wheat from the chaff so to speak. It's shocking how many of his peers at the time were Masons, or at least connected or in dialogue with them. Goethe, Kant, Fichte among others. Thanks for the response.
@Christendom1000@CoreyJMahler This man implies that there's something wrong with converting to EO if you are unwell in some way, as if Christ is not for the damaged, sick, poor in spirit and so on...
@UntoldFortune I think he did a simplified, rhetorical account of the topic though, since it was for a broad general audience. Could be wrong, but that is how I took the way he presented it.
@scribeofcamelot@ZachForbesBro Realize that by writing Paul as a hero, he illustrates the very problem that with hero worship that those quotes I've posted refer to. You're essentially saying that he contradicts himself, while I believe he's being quite consistent.
But yes, that was a good read.
@rykard_11@ZachForbesBro Well, when the choice is between absolute tyranny by the worst human being ever to live, basically a galactic anti-Christ, or extinction (if you take the anti-Christ's word for it)...
@scribeofcamelot@ZachForbesBro Are you out of your mind? Have you not read any of the quotes I've posted?
But you're right, the last part of Chalamet's quote isn't spot on.
@scribeofcamelot@ZachForbesBro Have actually found the interview myself. "So I wanted to create a charismatic leader a Messiah you would follow for all of the right reasons. He is loyal to his people, he's honorable and he's true to his friends...
@scribeofcamelot@ZachForbesBro So fair enough, you're technically right. Though you've completely missed the point by not considering just about anything and everything Herbert has said himself about heroes.
@scribeofcamelot@ZachForbesBro And there is the power structure that grows up around him; that's what we deal with in the second book. That shook a lot of people. Here was a hero who didn't make everything all right. He created a power structure. He did it just by being there..."