re: Remember when Sen. John Cornyn said “Inshallah"

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This is a teaching from a Sunni hadith; not Shiites. You know, the same Sunnis we keep funding to kill Americans yet Team USA wants to go to war with Shia Iran on behalf of Jewish Israel - you know, the Jews who killed Christ?

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it’s complicated

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Why do Shiites chant "Death to America" and fling missiles at our ships in international water if they are so peaceful?

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Maybe if you turned off FoxNews and did a little free thought exercise you’d answer your own question.

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I’ve never seen anyone on TD say that…and we have some complete morons on here.

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I’ve heard it often over the years. Perhaps I’m more sensitive to it so I notice it more, but there are a lot of people who think Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God.

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Your transliteration of Koran is also incorrect. It’s Qu’ran or Quran.

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I was at my kid’s baseball game and didn’t want to keep messing with autocorrect. I’m aware of the spelling.

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i hope paxton wipes the floor with cornyn.

All members of congress should have to fight through primaries all the time. You should have to prove yourself to voters every election to be held accountable...especially the do-nothing GOP house.

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you know, the Jews who killed Christ?

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The Romans killed Christ.. at the behest of Jewish authorities.

A distinction I feel makes an interesting point...

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Is He a Triune God of three equal and eternal Persons, as in Christianity, or is the simple monotheism of Islam the answer? The Trinity is at the core of Christianity, to the point that you cannot be rightly be called a Christian if you deny it. Likewise, the idea of God having a Son in any sense is explicitly condemned in Islam. These two versions of God can’t both exist, and the respective religions cannot both be true.

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This is true, and a critical principle.

Albeit Jesus never claimed to be equal to God the Father, only with Him. He chastised those who sought to worship him (Jesus) as such. Jesus is apparently a 'sub-set' (I.e., "Son") of God.

This is murky, but I'll throw it on the wall anyway:
"In the BEGINNING" was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS GOD". The single 'thing' that does and will exist - eternally so - is a/the IDEA. Or a 'Blueprint' of all that can be therein. Once such exists, though being intangible, it exists forever, as there is no such thing as Time in that realm. All aspects and the potential therein of an 'Idea' is necessarily defined with Words, I.e., THE WORD. That truly is the foundation, or "beginning", as Scripture implies.

Derivative and concurrent re that Idea, and at the fore would be the (inevitable) aspect of "Self Awareness", I.e., "The I Am".The intangible Idea then becomes an Entity, no longer a formless or impersonal existential scenario, but "God the Father". The "Son" - further derivative of both the Word and the Self-Aware Entity Father - would be a concurrent, inevitable and existential result of the above Creative dynamic.

The Two above (which should be potentially obvious to all rational people with "eyes that see") - existing CONCURRENTLY, as ONE, would be TWO aspects of the Triune Godhead.

The Third aspect would be the Holy Spirit, or a 'Moving Power' as defined in the Triune Christian Theology. If the Word/Blueprint/Idea/Potential for everything that can/does exist, is coupled with the Self-Aware Entity/God the Father aspect, then the Moving Power/Holy Spirit will absolutely 'push' the other Two to realize and create ALL that can be. And that potential is endless, eternal and extraordinary beyond Human comprehension. In Intellect, raw Universal Power, and above all, the Feeling of Unity and Love. And indeed, worthy of unrestrained reverence and worship.

The "Son", Jesus Christ, being a sub-set of the Word, the Father/God Entity, and the Holy Spirit/Moving Power, would then be the "first born" of Man, created out of Love, in order to share said Love and the wondrous Creative Universal potential therein with more Entities. The fact that a sub-set Son would exist in a perfect and sinless scenario, would indeed legitimize It's/HIs power as a sinless Firstborn to be - by default - appointed as both 'overseer and "Savior" of all derivatives 'Sub-Entities'/Children therein.

It remains to be seen how this plays out with the current Worldly Theological/Philosophical differences, but given the limitations and fears (justly so) of the Human psyche, and the potential interaction of Evil ("The Lie"), it increases the likelihood that upon Jesus's "second coming", such will indeed be "in the clouds" of massive Global conflict, based on the struggle to once and for all determine the answer to Pilate's question "what is truth". One person's truth is another's heresy or blasphemy.

Being Christian, I choose to believe that the Firstborn of Man, the "only begotten Son of God' who manifested in the flesh and delivered the Truth, will indeed 'return' in an extraordinarily suicidal and painful global dog fight, and that the Vision of Spirit which will come with said Coming will result in the "every knee will bow" scenario. That is my opinion, and like my old childhood and now deceased friend would say, "a two-headed jack arse has an opinion". He's right.