From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 19:43:17 MDT
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 06:41 PM, J Corbally wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:50:47 -0400
>> From: Christopher Whipple <crw@well.com>
>> Subject: Re: Tangent: Koran Quotes
>> My point remains.
>
> Er, what makes you think they're interested in saving the
> non-believers? The reason they want them dead is so that they'll burn
> eternally. They don't want them saved, they want them suffering.
> Killing them gets that happening sooner.
>
> Regards,
>
> James....
Indeed. I didn't back my assertion with a specific quote from the
Koran.
In my quick parsing of the book I *did* run across passages that could
be interpreted as promoting conversion of non-believers. Other quotes
said non-believers would suffer in the Hell-fire. It was all quite
vague and open to interpretation - which itself could be interpreted as
a mechanism of religion that promotes self-propagation.
There's no point laboring in debate over these interpretations.
Those of us who are quick to deride religion must keep in mind that
some people view the Extropian principles as the structure of a
"techno-futurist" religion. That was the impression of a friend of
mine who I had asked to read them. I'm sure there are threads in the
archive regarding Extropianism's status (or lack thereof) of being a
religion.
-crw.
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