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    Also the title of the poem "Only Breath" is about the Holy Spirit. Called Nafesh/Ruach in the...

    Also the title of the poem "Only Breath" is about the Holy Spirit. Called Nafesh/Ruach in the Torah, called Ruh in the Qur'an. Spirit is always identified with breath. It doesn't take an Einstein to work it out, only someone with a basic knowledge of theology.
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    This is what happens when you try to apply modern secular atheist thought onto a poet from the...

    This is what happens when you try to apply modern secular atheist thought onto a poet from the 12th century. Plus the translation doesn't do it justice. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi
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    @Red Sky at Morning That's obviously not literal, as he was and is religious, very deeply. He...

    @Red Sky at Morning That's obviously not literal, as he was and is religious, very deeply. He was an orthodox Sunni Muslim, a Hanafi. He was not unreligious and never promoted irreligiousness. That would be an inversion of what his poem is saying and what he was.
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    @Red Sky at Morning What a silly comment. The meaning of the poem is pretty clear "I don't...

    @Red Sky at Morning What a silly comment. The meaning of the poem is pretty clear "I don't belong to this or that worldly thing, I only belong to God and God only". That is what the poem is saying. How the heck could you get "anthem for the NWO" out of that? The equivalent of your comment is...
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    From what I do know of Buddhism, the 3rd eye doesn't play much of a role in most traditions at all. I have no idea what you were practicing but it doesn't sound like Buddhism. Work on the 3rd eye is more popular in certain Hindu traditions, but moreso popularized in the modern newage because it...
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    Regarding Uyghur

    ISIS aren't self defense, and as I just showed you, they are to be fought against as per the Qur'an's own words. They are enemies of Islam, they literally kill other Muslims too. These kinds of discussion are so vapid. You people are so stuck on three or four ridiculous lazy 'criticisms' that...
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    Regarding Uyghur

    The Qur'an (again, SPELL IT CORRECTLY) speaks directly about such people: There were nine persons in the city who caused corruption in the land, and did not bring about any reform. They said, ‘[Let us] swear together by God that we will attack him and his family by night. Then we will surely...
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    Regarding Uyghur

    It's "Qur'an" not "koran". It's not "infidels" either (that is NOT an Islamic term), it's Kafir. Kafir means "someone in a state of ingratitude", the verse itself is not at all a general verse, don't take it out of context. It's about a battle situation, not common life. It's also not about Jews...
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    Regarding Uyghur

    Salaam, What confuses me is that these Christians use the word "infidel" for some reason when talking about non-believers in the Islamic context, yet infidel is not an Islamic word, and no Muslim uses that word anywhere. It's an english word originating in Catholicism/Protestantism. But the...
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    Again, go and ask https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    I'm by no means a Buddhist and am not really fit to be an apologist for Buddhists but I know that basically every single detail of your interpretation of Buddhism is very far off.
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    Why not go over to https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/ and ask some Buddhists your questions and see what their responses are?
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    Buddhists aren't new agers. Buddhism is also ancient, predating Christianity by centuries.
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    People war for a lot of reasons, it's quite territorial though. War does have it's place in religious history (sacred even) but it is usually over territory, resources and trying to overrun other countries.
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    Hell & The Odds of an Afterlife

    I don't think they sugarcoat it at all, but they don't emphasize fear of it to the degree that Abrahamic religions commonly do.
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