This is a chat I had with 01andak on the "The Name "Allah" - Moon god? video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slLBam06iyghttp://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=2265.0It began...
So, according to this logic, Christians worship trees because they have Christmas trees as a symbol and the Druids used to worship trees. The Jews conversely worship stars because their symbol is a star. Does is never occur to your ignoramuses that a symbol can or a word can be coopted to mean something very different from its original purpose? For example, the cross was a symbol of torture and now it's a symbol of redemption. Or is it that Christians worship torture? By your faulty logic.
01andak 1 day ago
@01andak Christmas trees have nothing to do with the Gospel. Nor do Christians prostrate themselves to Christmas trees since they have nothing to do with the worship of Jesus Christ.
ALL Muhammad's followers ARE REQUIRED to prostrate themselves to the Quraish pagan's black stone idol, in Mecca, 5 times a day. Muslims venerate the Quraish pagan's idol as representing Muhammad's "Allah", just as the Quraish pagan's venerated it as representing their pagan deity "Allah".
watch?v=jGyWs__Y-rU
PeteWaldo 19 hours ago
@PeteWaldo Excellent way to win a debate. Just pick which responses to accept and which to suppress and you always get the last word. "Comments may be held for uploader approval." Seems that you have some idea that your weak arguments won't hold up and you protect them with censorship.
01andak 4 hours ago
@01andak You exhibit the typical Muhammadan inability to think in a linear fashion. Please show us where the Gospel instructs Christians to prostrate ourselves to, or venerate, a cross. Following that please show us where the Old Testament instructs Jews to prostrate themselves to, or venerate, the symbol of a star.
watch?v=jGyWs__Y-rU
Much less run back and forth between a couple hills as the Arabian jinn-devil worshipers did.
watch?v=xfWy5KaFvbU
PeteWaldo 1 hour ago
@01andak As bad as that, after the Jews rejected Muhammad because their Torah made it obvious he was a false prophet, he switched the qibla from Jerusalem to Mecca, and switched his "holy" day from the Sabbath to Friday.
watch?v=ujUOZyrnewE
Let alone that he also adopted and adapted rituals from the 2nd century occult cult of the Sabians that, prostrated in prayer 5 times a day, practiced ablution, and fasted during the same month of Ramadan in moon worship.
watch?v=yR3Bla8YwbU
PeteWaldo 30 minutes ago
@01andak Your follow-up was a good reminder of why I quit squandering my time with 500 character bits and pieces in video comments long ago. This video was left open by accident, and will be closed as well, because the first link on each video takes viewers to a forum, where we can post virtually unlimited length comments, quote each other, post live links, and ENGAGE in a thoughtful EXCHANGE over time, with a well preserved record of our chat. Why not get serious and join me there?
PeteWaldo 15 minutes ago
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@PeteWaldo Well, if you mean by linear - they have a crescent on top of their church, therefore they worship the moon, then no. That equates to they have a cross on their church, therefore they worship crosses. Linear thinking loses touch with the truth when it comes across complex concepts that may not be linear in nature. For example, the use of trees and mistletoe at Christmas and the date that Christmas appears at are more to do with subverting pagan customs than complying.
01andak 1 hour ago
@01andak I said you are incapable of linear thought. Google the term. You are incapable of connecting dots. You just demonstrated it again by ignoring my request to show us in the Gospel where Christians are called to venerate crosses, or trees, or as you embellish now mistletoe.
Yet EVERY MUHAMMADAN is REQUIRED to prostrate himself to the Quraish pagan's black stone idol 5 times a day. Why don't you share with us where Muhammad came up with the five times from?
watch?v=twwVjrhagL0
PeteWaldo 7 minutes ago
(quoted himself in reply)
@01andak Likewise, any connection the Kaaba had to paganism was severed by the Muslims to the same degree that the building materials of the Vatican, taken from pagan temples ceased to be pagan when they were given a new context.
01andak 1 hour ago
@01andak "Likewise, any connection the Kaaba had to paganism was severed by the Muslims..." Sadly that's untrue. Pagans and Muhammad's followers circumambulated the pagan's Kaaba shoulder to shoulder until the year before Muhammad's last Hajj.
Buk V2B26#689: "In the year prior to the last Hajj of the Prophet...Abu Bakr ...sent me ...to make a public announcement: 'No pagan is allowed to perform Hajj after this year, and no naked person is allowed to perform Tawaf of the Kaba.'
PeteWaldo 2 minutes ago
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@PeteWaldo According to the hadiths, it was revealed during the night journey to the farthest mosque. Any resemblance to a preexisting practice doesn't figure into what Muslims believe. You may think it has to do with that, but Muslims to not. It isn't some conspiracy theory, that's what Muslims believe. And what you said, we do not believe. Leave connecting the dots to children, you're coming up with the picture you wanted to in the first place.
01andak 1 minute ago
@01andak "you're coming up with the picture you wanted to in the first place." I'm coming up with the only reasonable conclusion a person can draw. In order to follow THE false prophet Muhammad, a person must ignore scripture, history, archaeology and geography, until they achieve the intellectual level of a 7th century SW Arabian desert dwelling illiterate. Why don't you click on the first link below the video and scroll to the bottom. Where we can continue our chat constructively.
PeteWaldo 1 sec ago
@01andak Why don't you share with us how many people saw Muhammad's magic flying donkey-mule? Then share with us how many of the even illiterate 7th century pagan Arabians had the good sense to leave Muhammad's pop-cult, after that tall tale.
No, rather than the Quraish pagans, the baraq had more to do with the Zoroastrian flying camel that carried their mythical prophet to the place where his immortal ancestors were supposed to have dwelt. Sound familiar?
watch?v=twwVjrhagL0
PeteWaldo 1 sec ago
@01andak "Likewise, any connection the Kaaba had to paganism was severed by the Muslims to the same degree that the building materials of the Vatican, taken from pagan temples ceased to be pagan when they were given a new context."
Can't even you see how ridiculous your argument is? While I am no fan of the Roman Church, or squandering resources on such buildings, the Kaaba WAS BUILT BY PAGANS TO HOUSE 360 IDOLS, one of which Muhammadans still prostrate themselves toward today.
PeteWaldo 1 second ago
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@PeteWaldo As many or more than the number of named apostles present at the crucifixion. Not one of the four Gospel writers claims to have personally witnessed the crucifixion, nor does any of them name an apostle who did.
01andak 1 hour ago
@01andak See what I meant about being incapable of linear thought? All you can do is skip around in willy nilly 500 character snipe-and-run. Instead of defending Muhammad's stand-alone 7th century cult, you turned to blaspheming the one true God of the Scriptures. Do you really think blaspheming God will somehow make Muhammad's stand-alone 23 year 7th century record more true, any more than it will move Mecca any closer than 1200 KM from THE Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs?
PeteWaldo 1 sec ago
@01andak Let alone that blaspheming all of the prophets and witnesses as revealed in the 1600 year record of YHWH to mankind, that His people have followed through two covenants for 3500 years, will never magically create thousands of years of pre-4th century historical or archaeological record of Mecca. THE ENTIRETY of so-called Islamic "tradition" is 7th to 10th century AD CREATED PURE FICTION that masquerades as historical record.
PeteWaldo 1 sec ago
@PeteWaldo Because that is not a public forum and this is. I'm not going to waste my time convincing you, but I will comment for others who happen upon this page. Don't learn about Islam from Christians or Christianity from Muslims. People know what they believe and other people have opinions about it.
01andak 1 hour ago
@01andak "Because that is not a public forum and this is." It's not only a public forum, but web crawlers catalog the subjects. Most of our visitors find us with search engines. All the time you squander in YouTube bits and pieces will flip to the next page and are as good as never said. Wasted time. That's why I am making a permanent record of our chat. You can revisit it, and Muhammadans who get that first spark of cognitive dissonance and are genuinely seeking the truth, can benefit.
PeteWaldo 1 sec ago
@01andak "People know what they believe and other people have opinions about it." You can believe in the tooth fairy, but that doesn't mean that she will magically come true. To believe a 7th century cult, that professes the EXACT OPPOSITE of the WHOLE SUBJECT of the Gospel, you are going to have to start with some historical and archaeological EVIDENCE that attests to a pre-4th century Mecca. Why don't you Google it?
watch?v=nAQHFVn7H2Q