I can understand you feeling that. I wasn't saying that they were
necessarily pleasant.
The Green Lane Mosque is right by where I grew up and what was the
Green Lane Public Baths and Library (where my dad used to have to go
once a week to pay for a bath and where I took out my first book of my
own choice: the One Thousand and One Nights) is now, I understand, an
Islamic Resource Centre.
These things happen. Islam, like Christianity, is complex and
many-layered culture, both repulsive and poetic, charitable and
bigoted. Dawkins believes in the Evidence but he forgets that we're
not, and are never likely to be, in Possession of the Facts.
Just stories, and much over-written ones, and fragmented, at that.
2008/5/15 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:47 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Ps Roger
>>
>> As for God is dead. Linguistically, culturally, psychologically, no: a
>> visit to any mosque or evangelical church will demonstrate that to
>> you.
>
> No thankyou - I couldn't the bigotry that goes on in those places:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7401704.stm
>
> Dawkins hasn't - and probably never will - say that someone of a
> religious persuasion should be "thrown off a mountain."
>
> Roger
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> The Go-Betweens
>
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David Bircumshaw
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