tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post1928491965240822652..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Muslim "Scholars" Promote Killing Those who DisagreeAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-45553825168334456392011-01-07T20:23:46.043-07:002011-01-07T20:23:46.043-07:00re: Brian's "definitions"
If you wi...<i>re: Brian's "definitions"<br /><br />If you wish, each of us may lay claim to "being a dictionary."</i><br /><br />Did you just defend the argument that a word was objectively misused by saying we are entitled to our own private dictionary?<br /><br /><i>"if Allah exists and is all powerful, it could strike down the blasphemer with a bolt of lightning to make its displeasure public knowledge."</i><br /><br />He works in mysterious ways, or so I've been told. This way there's more of the Lord's work to do! Yay?Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11958115795753496384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-44519682713458578292011-01-07T10:57:55.950-07:002011-01-07T10:57:55.950-07:00What gets me about these people who kill those the...What gets me about these people who kill those they deem guilty of "blasphemy" are committing the deed in the name of an entity that is supposedly all powerful. If that is the case, if Allah exists and is all powerful, it could strike down the blasphemer with a bolt of lightning to make its displeasure public knowledge.Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-64861566442050046742011-01-07T08:41:16.334-07:002011-01-07T08:41:16.334-07:00Alonzo,
re: Brian's "definitions"
...Alonzo,<br /><br />re: Brian's "definitions"<br /><br />If you wish, each of us may lay claim to "being a dictionary." <br /><br />In another post you write about your approval of the death of at least one person responsible for the anti-vaccination fraud. You don't say you want him to die violently,... but I suspect he is likely to view it that way.<br /><br />When he was considering his scam, I doubt he was thinking of a way to hurt children to make money,... he was probably looking for some way to "make money." The scheme lodged in his brain and there was no consideration for anyone else,... though he may have believed, in convenient hallucinatory moments, that he was going to save a life.<br /><br />Actions we take because we hold them as "necessary," all too often may have significant "side effects" for others,... whom we never considered.<br /><br />I might go on,... but I might also stop.<br /><br />Thanks for the blog.<br /><br />Regards,<br />GerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-41850278600075310942011-01-06T14:32:08.850-07:002011-01-06T14:32:08.850-07:00"A sincere interest in understanding a subjec...<i>"A sincere interest in understanding a subject entails an unwillingness to shoot people just because they disagree with you."</i><br /><br />That not only isn't implied by the word, it's not relevant to the situation at hand even if we assume it to be. There is no evidence that these Muslim scholars are willing to shoot people just because they disagree with them.<br /><br />Rather, only a few, specific disagreements warrant that verdict. The best description of their position certainly isn't "all who disagree should be killed". A thoughtful analysis should parse out the commonality among the cases in which they advocate violence and distinguish them from other cases, and disagreement alone is far too broad to be useful; though it does encompass all cases in which they advocate death it is quite far from only encompassing such cases.<br /><br />A better explanation is that they believe in certain metaphysical realities that have moral consequences. Sometimes, disagreement with them coincides with circumstances that warrant death. I don't see how the appellation "scholar" is incompatible with most of the infinite number of belief systems that sometimes justify violence, nor with most actually believed in today.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11958115795753496384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-4770994518687971832011-01-06T06:27:53.875-07:002011-01-06T06:27:53.875-07:00Brian
The people who thought that those definitio...<b>Brian</b><br /><br />The people who thought that those definitions accurately accounted for the meaning of "scholar" seem to have missed something.<br /><br />A sincere interest in understanding a subject entails an unwillingness to shoot people just because they disagree with you.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-9060167599963856682011-01-05T13:44:07.525-07:002011-01-05T13:44:07.525-07:00(from m-w.com)
"schol·ar noun \ˈskä-lər\
Def...(from m-w.com)<br /><br />"schol·ar noun \ˈskä-lər\<br />Definition of SCHOLAR<br /><br />1<br />: a person who attends a school or studies under a teacher : pupil<br />2<br />a : a person who has done advanced study in a special field<br />b : a learned person<br />3<br />: a holder of a scholarship<br /><br />...from Latin schola school"<br /><br />I don't see anything there about violence. One might as well say one cannot be a "scholar" and praise baseball.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11958115795753496384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-91198288357329983482011-01-05T11:17:16.833-07:002011-01-05T11:17:16.833-07:00Islam is the Official Religion, therefore it has a...Islam is the Official Religion, therefore it has access to the State's Weaponry to evangelise by brute force!<br />Islam OFFENDS me terribly!Juliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15712687960643444659noreply@blogger.com