Originally posted by PM Summer:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sleeper:
[qb] [QUOTE]Uh, Sleeper, I think it's time you woke up or turned your computer off. I have seldom seen a post so full of ignorant statements presented as knowledgable insights and corrections to another's post.
1) This country wasn't founded on "Quaker" beliefs. I wish that it were (Theist beliefs, more closely). The Quakers are very, VERY Christian, BTW.
2) Paganism in its various forms worships many different dieties. Worshipping a diety is fundamental to Pagans.
3) Buddhism most definetly IS a religion, although Buddhists do not think Buddha was God (or a god).
4) Allah is God to Muslims. Mohammed was the prophet/messenger ("There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Prophet."). Jesus is the third person of the Triune God, not a messenger. Moses and John the Fore Runner were messengers (although the word used for angels actually means messengers).
You are entitled to your opinions. Your ignorance is best left to yourself.
If you go back a couple of pages you'll see that I corrected myself on Allah.
Religion, by definition, is "belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe."
This is the original definition of Religion as taken from the "Oxford English Dictionary".
So since Buddhist's don't believe Buddha was a God, they do not fit the definition of religion.
Paganism if the worship of MANY God's. Islam believes in one God. Therefore Islam is NOT a pagan religion. That is what I said in my previous post. So what is it you're arguing me about?
The first Continental Congess of the US was mostly Quakers followed secondly by Puritans. Most early settlers were also of these same two religions. So yes, the US was founded and by and influenced by these two religions.
