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I've seen the Ethiopian quasi-gospel listed in books of apocrypha, but I can't find it on the net. Anybody know anything about it or where I could find it without buying a book of stuff I've already read? Also, a Christian related chunk in the Talmud is identified by a character within its...

I hate admitting to my own ignorance, it weakens my appearance when I have to argue, but I can't find squat on the history of Hanifism. There probably simply isn't that much information. I know the four characters in the tradition of Islam -Waraqa Naufal, Ubaydullah Jahsh, Uthman Huwayrith, and...

This is an OOOOOOOOOOLD story, but I'm bored. Also, I thought nothing of it until I happened upon a rather big Catholic forum that slammed this poor little girl for not following their insane dogma. Truth be told, she could've just been given a drop of wine and been done with it and her mother...

The DVD for 'The Passion of the Christ' is coming out no-frills this Tuesday. I had resigned myself to ignoring it (I deliberately viewed a pirated copy so as to avoide giving Mel Gibson my money), but my mom was curious so I may very well rent it at some point in the future for her benefit. I...

Not a big question... Whenever a Christian missionary or whoever wants to 'refute' Islam they quote supposedly from a book of wisdoms by the Ayatollah. The only 'quotes' I've seen are apparently in favor of pederasty, bestiality, etc. Is the Tahrirolvasyleh a real book, are the quotes real? Is...

One of the many things I always disagee with Moslems on is the verse in Surah 19 about Miriam (mother of Isa) being the sister of Aaron spoken of in the Torah. There's a million paths of apologetics to this. That its figurative, meaning she's from a tribe associated with Aaron. That she simply...

I was going to start a thread discussing Animism in Islam, but the root question is: how much validity can any of the Abrahamic religions have if they've clearly borrowed from Pagan (a derogatory state of being in their belief) traditions? Sure, they can provide moral centers, etc, but they...

Maybe I should register five fake usernames so I can sleep more soundly. I have a 'mile-o-meter' fetish, I think. 1,001 is going to be hell.

I've been looking on the net for some resource describing all the various miracles Buddha was suppose to have... done, or witnessed. Miracles or wonderous things seem to be at odds in some interpretations of Buddhism, and I blame that for my inability to find anything on the net. But I was...

Does it exist? Or is the search for path open to interpretation? Surely there are heretical branches that stray from the orthodox. Otherwise, how could so many people who were raised under the shadow of Buddhism be so at odds with themselves. I'll plead ignorance and hopefully someone can...

There are religions that seem to have a doctrine of convert or die and burn in hell--Islam, Christianity. While others, like Hebrew Judaism has a provincial flavor (one could argue that Arab Moslems and American Christians share this to an extent) with God's favor often limited to a perceived...

The first time I read the Old Testament (no disrespect-had I said Torah, I would've been more in error, since King James didn't write the Torah) I was struck by what an apparent clown Abraham was. Had his role in Genesis remained the same, save for being penned by an anti-Semite it would've been...

I'm by no means a scholar, and I'll readily admit that this notion is based on amateur speculation. So take pity on me. Anyway, with the popularity of Mel Gibson's crap movie 'The Passion' I've started hearing one time anglo-obsessed Christians referring to Jesus as Yeshua. I can't help but...

Anybody know where I can find--either on the net or via internet bookstore--the Daniel Defoe essay The Political History of the Devil? Since his work is public domain I thought I could easily find it on the net. Not so. Where-ever God erects a House of Prayer, The...

The face of Jesus is clearly a subject that has fascinated people since the dawn of Christianity forward. The story of Veronica with her bloody cloth was one of the first extra-biblical anecdotes to became a part of established tradition. And now we have the Shroud of Turin, completely...

I forget who, but at one point in some thread someone mentioned Melchizedek and his role in Judaism and Christianity. I don't have much to ask about the subject apart from what the consensus is among the regulars here. Its always been my opnion that the last meal of Jesus and the Christian...

Is fundamentalism the answer or the problem? In America, some Christians wear the term like a badge of honor and scoff at the notion that totalitarian religion is something unholy. Islam seems to be following this path, becoming tragically inseparable from middle-eastern terrorism in the eyes of...

Loved the site for a long time and finally registered. Not much to say about myself. My dad was an atheist and my mother agnostic. Until I was eight I thought when people referred to God they meant Zeus. I try to approach religion by way of the literary, which is probably why I favor...

All through childhood I marvelled and wondered at the payas of the Hassidic Jews, and what they meant, what purpose they served. The first time I asked a teacher I got the utterly insane Christian answer that they represented Moses horns, which--OF COURSE!--Jews have to file down to pass in...