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contracycle
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Message 193 of 204 (203359)
04-28-2005 11:45 AM
Reply to: Message 190 by Primordial Egg
04-27-2005 7:24 PM


Re: How sure are you about the authenticity of Dead Sea Scrolls
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looking at that site, with its unusual spellings of "Islaam" and "Quraan"
Neither of those are particularly unusual; I have seen at least 8 spellings of Koran, which is merely the most used term in English.
I tend to agree that projecting Fundamentalism onto Islam is probably an error. Biblical literalism is hard when the book itself is so metaphorical and reflective - it is not like the Christian bible, which appears as a pretty dry account, and to which an appeal to litralism can be made precisely becuase it is not much accompanied by metaphor or reflection.

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contracycle
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Message 200 of 204 (203582)
04-29-2005 7:02 AM
Reply to: Message 195 by Primordial Egg
04-28-2005 1:32 PM


Re: How sure are you about the authenticity of Dead Sea Scrolls
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Was this a response to anything I said (and not Checkmate)? + Did you mean Quran when you said Christian Bible above? If so, I'd agree that by its very nature the Quran is more instructional than the Bible. Funadmentalism to me is more about psychological condition - I'd say it could be applied to certain adherents of Christianity and Islam in equal measure.
My second paragraph was a response to the thread as a whole and I was thus agrreeing with Checkmate that it is erroneous to project Christian biblical literalism onto Islam.
Lets remember, "Islamic fundmanetalism" is a constructed trope: they are "fundamentalist" because they are "extreme", and they are "extreme" because they use violence. 99% of people who use the phrase use it in this sense IMO, rather than in the sense of literalism.

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