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Only Judeism

Only Islam

Yes to both Judeism and Islam

[TheDarkStar]

Huh.  What got the other religion thread locked?

Islam. Enough said.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Huh.  What got the other religion thread locked?

Islam. Enough said.

No it was one poster having anti Islamic posts that everyone argued against and Toady didn't want to deal with it

[Leafsnail]

That user's been perma-banned though, it should be safe to re-open.

[4maskwolf]

Oh so that's what burningpet got banned for.

I was wondering.

Oh yeah, he was the guy I yelled at on page two for bigotry.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

He got banned?


Crap now I feel like it was my fault that that happened to him


Anyhow if you guys want it open talk to Toady, I don't really care either way on if it's open or not

[4maskwolf]

Crap now I feel like it was my fault that that happened to him

No, it's his fault for being prejudiced and espousing angry, harmful views without bothering to learn about the subject.  You had nothing to do with it.

[Orange Wizard]

... yeah. Anyway, I think we're mature/lazy enough to not get into silly flamey death battles on this thread. Speak not ill of the dead, and so forth.

...

The church has authority because of the bible. The bible has authority because of the church.

The church can edit the bible, because of the bible.

Well, not directly. The Catholic Church can, because the Pope can sit in his chair and do the formal Word of God thing. I don't really know the details, admittedly, but I'm pretty sure that's a thing.
Anyway, Protestant/Reformed/Etc. churches like to flail their arms vaguely in the direction of whatever the verse was that said "don't add any new bits to the Bible" which is kind of conveniently ignored anyway.
Long story short, although yes, technically, the church can edit the Bible, people will probably complain about it. Middle ages dudes had the advantage of 99% of people not speaking Latin (or whatever) and could easily just lie to them or something. If you want to do that these days you have to be a little more subtle, and pray (har har) that your congregation is just a bunch of blind followers. Sheep, if you will (biting religious commentary right there ).

[penguinofhonor]

I definitely don't think Cryxis should open a thread Toady closed.

[Orange Wizard]

I don't think that's possible? Is it? I don't know.

[penguinofhonor]

It's definitely possible. I have a thread or two that have been locked by Toady and they have an unlock button.

I don't think anyone has ever been dumb enough to do it, though.

[Arx]

The Bible has authority because it was written by a number of divinely inspired authors (or directly by God, or whatever). It's no more cicular than saying that my bookshelf exists because an Ikea factory somewhere made it from blueprints given to them by an engineer.

I've never met the workers or the engineer, but I'm sure they exist, because my bookshelf exists.

[Leafsnail]

The Bible has divine authority because it was written by divinely inspired authors.  You can tell those divinely inspired authors existed because the Bible exists and has divine authority.

[Neonivek]

The Bible has divine authority because it was written by divinely inspired authors.  You can tell those divinely inspired authors existed because the Bible exists and has divine authority.

Just like Royalty!

[Orange Wizard]

The circularity of the Bible is heavily dependent on how important God is outside of the Bible.

[MrWiggles]

Without the Bible, there no God to be concern with. How do you know this God? Just the Bible. Why is there Trust placed in the Bible? The Bible says so.

 And if we want to get anal, then the oral traditions that would later make up the bible.