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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Russ didn't say the hijackers were muslim. They may consider themselves to be muslim, you (if inferred from what you just said) consider them to be muslim ("a *specific* act committed by Muslims").
You therefore (using your arguments against Russ) consider muslims to be terrorists.But I know you don't.
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Good, because that would have been utter nonsense.
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Using a bit of common sense, I can see that even though you refered to the people who flew the planes into the twin towers as muslim, you know that they were not following true islam, but some warped version of it.
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In exactly the same way the extremists whose views I posted in that reply to Ramrod *call* themselves Christian.
Now as to what a "true" Christian, Muslim or whatever is, is down to those who believe in the theology, but that's another discussion entirely.
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Just the same, Russ chose to only deal with the fact that christianity does not teach hatred nor violence, as that is something he knows about for sure.
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Ahem! "Does not"?
I think you mean "Should not"!!
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If he were to extend that to an unknown religion such as islam, then he would be making claims which although he may be pretty sure are true, he would not be able to back up.
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Doubts benefit does not require facts to back it up. That's the whole *point* about it!!