abu_rashid wrote on Aug 17
th, 2009 at 12:07am:
Soren, you are a dolt.
The Qur'an does not say anything about spreading Islam by the sword. Actually if we look at it, the Bible is the book in which God supposedly commanded the faithful to go out and slaughter people wholesale.
You really have some nerve fabricating such lies about Islam, when they exist as truth in your own book. Guess the best defense is a good offense right?
Quote:"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told."
If anyone's book is a little violent then it's yours, it is bursting from the seams of your book, not mine.
Yeh yeh yeh, "We don't follow that anymore", good for you.. it''s still in your book, it was brought by your prophets, it was commanded by God (according to your book), so the capacity for it, the idea of it, is part and parcel of your book and your religion. To now all of a sudden claim such things are pure evil, would be to blaspheme against your own God, something I know you couldn't care less about aanyway...
abu,
The violent event, in the Bible verse you quote, hasn't taken place yet.
And i notice that you freely quoted this Bible verse, but failed to give any reference.
So that folk could look it up, and comprehend for themselves.
Ezekiel 9:4-7
The events of Ezekiel 9:4-7 were the events which took place within a vision.
Ezekiel 8:1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.