Do moon gods and goddesses cast Moon Shadows?
Can God create a beer mug so large that even God can’t lift it?
Muslims also have a mosque built on the former site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was a mosque (it’s now a museum) that used the site (and the building) of a former Christian cathedral. I suppose by that logic, they do worship the same god as Jews and Christians, or at least they worshiped the same god as Christians until 1935.
Well, yeah…but when He gets that plowed he just uses a wormhole for a straw.
Until 1992, there was also a mosque in Ayodhya, India, that was built on the site of a former Hindu temple dedicated to Rama. So Muslims also might have worshipped Rama until 1992.
There is a Catholic church in Rome, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, that is built on the site of a former temple dedicated to Isis (it used to be erroneously thought to be a temple to Minerva). So Catholics worship Isis.
There is also a Catholic cathedral in Mexico City on a former Aztec sacred site. The Catholics must worship Huitzilopochtli, too.
Whee! This is fun!
Your gods drink beer? How gauche!
Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters is what the true deities prefer. Sometimes Dos Equis if you know who is around.
Yeah, Thor always did like the cheap shit.
I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I do.
Viking gods drank mead. There are probably some Protestant churches in Norway or Sweden that were built on former Viking sacred sites, so maybe the Protestant Christian god drinks mead as well.
Yes, he - BigT - is wrong. I said so earlier. The idea of Son or human divinity is considered Shirk (association). Islam has a view close or identical the Judiac view in this area.
it is not correct according to the Quran to say that the christians are "basically polytheists’ - although this is a view held by the extremists. It is more standard to see the christian practice as polluted by practices that are borrowed from the polythiests and particular in the idols. In this fashion the anti-iconist protestants when they emerged in Europe in the Protestant reformations were thought by many open minded muslims as being more close to the Islam than the catholic or the orthodox.
Yes, but not really the “however” part… in long tradition there is more tolerance of … jiggery (playing around?) than the Wahhabis pretend.
The saints of the Sufi traditions illustrate.
The strong horror that exsts in tradition is against idols. That is very hardline.
This is a marginal case and even the malaysian government has claimed it only applies to the catholic newspaper.
They , the malay muslim activists are being actively very stupid, and anti islamic doctrine. This is more about the local racial politics I think.
And Thor once drank enough of the ocean to cause a low tide.
I betcha Jesus would have loved mead. (Who doesn’t?)
And then peed it back out, which made the tide come back in? 
I got mixed up on him being the Messiah and being the son of God. To me, as a Christian, they are the same thing, but they are not in Islam.
The point is that, Jesus does have a special relationship with God. He is a prophet, which means he is closer to God enough to speak for him, and he is supposed to return, meaning God is letting him do so.
Watch it, kids, before this thread turns into a Classic Rock radio station.
Nope. That was my cat. Beautiful domestic shorthair, but dumb as a rock, so she wasn’t worthy of worship.
Got a little Shih Tzu/Westie cross I renamed Huitzi because she’s so bloodthirsty. Seemed appropriate. I don’t worship her, but I respect her.
I think that it’s a pity that the post above, which actually gave the clearest possible answer to the question of the OP, was not taken at face value. If we consider that there are two general ‘types’ of religion - (a) those that believe that they and only they hold the truth and worship correctly, and (b) those that believe that there are many paths to ‘truth’ - then it is obvious for those in camp (a) why every other religion has to be attacked (either through rhetoric or by literal violence). Every religion has the right to piss on every other religion, and the adherents have the right to either get angry about it or ignore it.
They’re not the same in Judaism, either. And a prophet isn’t the same as either one for Jews.
You do know that cats consider not worshiping them to be grounds for peeing on your pillow and leaving the less tasty half of a mouse in your shoes, right?
It was taken entirely at face value. It was just astoundingly dumb. And silly. And wrong.
I have to admit I can’t understand how people can see that every other religion is just a bunch of make-believe and superstition while blindly believing that their religion is divinely revealed truth.
How exactly do you determine the difference? What is it that lets you know that Jesus performing miracles and rose from the dead is true but Rama rescuing Sita from Ravana is just a story?
And don’t religious people ever find it suspicious that the religion they believe is true almost always happens to be the religion they were raised in as a child?
Do people ever think “The reason I’m a devout Baptist is because I happened to be born in Little Rock. If I had been born in Mumbai, I’d be a devout Hindu and I’d believe that religion just as fully as I now believe in the American Baptist Association.”? Or do devout people not think that? Do they feel that even if they had been born in India or Nigeria or Mongolia, they would still have found the exact same religion they have now and be a devoted member of that religion?
Ironic that you link to a song by the famous Muslim jihadist Yusuf Islam, once barred from entering the U.S.A. :eek: