It's a sad reflection on Australian society reading these comments.

Liz

Please be more specific, what have you not liked?

Logic

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.

I was referring to the Islamophobic comments on the thread.

'TR suggests:
“… the Gospels are not historical accounts but are in fact mythological accounts.

Which particular book? Give us some specifics.'

Sure Coach. All four Gospels are mythological accounts and the rest of the New Testament is a loose history describing the effect of this proto-Christian mythology on the early Church.

The miracles depicted in the Gospels are a give away. For example, the idea that a corpse could raise to life after three days is clearly stupid. Dead people stay dead. They do not, and cannot come back to life. It is an impossibility for them to do so. Only a deluded mind would believe otherwise.

I don't think that we can labour the point too much. Miracles are a con! There are no such thing as miracles as Nature does not permit them. Nature is too elegant, too ordered and too predictable for a grotesque thing like a miracle.

Because this is a thread about Hirsi Ali and Islam I should also mention that the 'Miracle of the Koran' is also another piece of rank stupidity. To believe that a book is divine and has originated from outside space-time is also delusional. And what's more, to believe that is was dicated to a 'Prophet' by a real live angel is just plain silly.

TR, we bring the dead back to life all the time. Some of the most ordinary people have done it using CPR. Only a simpleton would approach a book of parables using a literal translation for argument.
Perhaps you need someone to explain parable to you.

Well, that's novel aqvarivs. The Disciples (or someone) did CPR on Jesus on the third day! After crucifixion, a spear in the side, and a good flogging as well. Brilliant. I'm sorry, but when I say dead I mean dead.

Yes, I agree that the New Testament is like a collection of parables and should be read like Homer's Iliad. However, in the real world hundreds of millions of Christians take the Resurrection story LITERALLY. And for reasons best known to themselves both Christians and Muslims believe that this same Jesus will descend from heaven (where ever that is) to save us all during a LITERAL Second Coming.

With such (literal) childish ideas that make no sense what-so-ever I'm not surprised that Hirsi Ali went atheist.