At 2:45 AM 3/26/5, thomas malloy wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > >Horace Heffner replied > >>At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: >> >>>The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure >>>nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substitute for Torah. >>>I thought I'd made the case adequately, but apparently I didn't. >> >>You completely failed to address the issue and you seem to not even >>understand the point. >> >>Jews and Christians worship the god of Abraham. Islamists worship the god >>of Abraham. If it is the same Abraham it is the same god. >> > >You believe what you want to believe.
I have suggested two propositions and a conclusion. These things are not a matter of my faith or what I believe. What matters is the general doctrine of Christians, Jews, and Moslems concerning Abraham and his one god. >I've pointed out that the two >entities have; different names, different legal systems, and the >train of human thought that they produced bore different fruit. If >you still believe that they are the same entity, you have blinded >yourself to what is obvious. Once again you have failed to address either the propositions or the logic. Instead you again frame the problem as a matter of personal faith and attack the conclusion on the basis of what men have done in the interim. [snip] >There is only one way in which peace can be achieved when one system, >or group of people, is sworn to destroy the other. One of us has to >destroy the other. "When civilized men are unwilling to do what needs >to be done in order to maintain their existence, they will be >replaced by uncivilized men, who are willing to do what needs to be >done." I believe that this quote is from Victor Davis Hanson, >frequent guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show. Genocide can not be the only means to peace. If anything in this world is utterly evil, genocide has to be at the top of the list. Regards, Horace Heffner
