polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 28
th, 2015 at 1:17pm:
Soren wrote on Jul 27
th, 2015 at 6:23pm:
Gandy, you are a liar if you maintain that you can equally believe two mutually contradictory things.
Nice try.
But here's what you should have wrote:
you are a liar if you maintain that you can equally believe mutually contradictory things. Big difference.
I don't believe them to be contradictory. I gave you ample opportunity to accept my sincerity on this, but instead you just continue insisting that it must be contradictory - as if you alone have the monopoly on universal truth - and conclude therefore that I am a liar.
It was clever of you (well not really) to twist this into a simple semantic exercise -
of course if I claim to knowingly believe in two mutually contradictory things - that would make me a liar. Thats a no-brainer. You just left out a pretty darned important part of that: namely that I reject your premise that they *ARE* contradictory.
Thank you Gandy, you are in the bag - if you don't mind me saying so.
Show us how Islam valorises
Individual choice over submission to Mohammed's revelations
Freedom of speech, conscience, religion.
How Islam has not treated non Muslims as dhimmis throughout its entire history
How shia and sunni Islam have NOT been completely intolerant of each other
How Islam permitted freedom of religion and conscience to Jews, Christians, Hindus, pagans
How Muslims are who kill cartoonists, translators, film makers in the 21st century, in the name of Islam, are demonstrably wrong
What Muslims like you who think they are wrong are doing about them - other than berating people like me.
This is just for starters, I am sure I will have more questions once you start addressing these questions.
The long and the short of it - you have no evidence of any kind that will show that Islam is compatible with Enlightenment Western political and ethical standards that prevail today across much of Europe, North America, Australia and NZ.
But you are invited to give
on all these points and I am sure many others that will pop up due to your answers.
Over to you, Gandy.