Thread: Sam Harris on Apologists
-
August 23rd 2008, 03:00 PM #1
Sam Harris on Apologists
Transcribed from part of a debate with Sam Harris:
Imagine the Koran exactly the way it is, but with one additional line "If you see a red haired woman on your doorstep at sunset, cut her head off". Just imagine a text like that which makes it down through the ages and is still there today. I can tell you what kind of world we would live in: a world in which red haired women are found murdered (in the Muslim World)... we would open the NY Times and read that 20 heads were just found in a bag and they were all red haired women. We would also live in a world in which Apologists for Islam would look at that behavior and say it has nothing to do with Islam. They would say things like "there was a news story last week where a Mormon man killed his wife and she had red hair" and "Many of the women who's heads were found in the bag were not actually redheads - some were strawberry blonde" and "some of the women were shot and not decapitated, but clearly only decapitation is sanctioned in the Koran" etc. This is the type of gymnastics we would be faced with.
Similar Threads
-
A Critic On My Review Of Sam Harris
By ApologiaPhoenix in forum Deeper WatersReplies: 14Last Post: August 27th 2010, 09:58 AM -
Lucy Harris
By Sparko in forum LDS - MormonismReplies: 94Last Post: May 5th 2009, 08:00 AM -
Review: The End of Faith by Sam Harris
By Seasanctuary in forum Apologetics 301Replies: 202Last Post: July 11th 2008, 01:52 AM -
The Emmylou Harris spam thread
By Tobias Reiper in forum Rec RoomReplies: 16Last Post: April 18th 2004, 08:48 PM -
New Harris Poll About God
By Trout in forum Civics 101Replies: 2Last Post: November 10th 2003, 02:11 PM















































































Quote

Revelation was written during...
Today, 08:17 PM in Eschatology 201