So, the substantive difference is a legal framework that inhibits immigration. Looks plausible. But is it really written up so as to favor Jews? In ot...
Well, "if A then B" (if apprehended, then existing) is a reasonable rule of thumb. But does it imply "if not-A, then not-B"? You later referred to con...
If we can't, does that mean that X does not exist? Is "apprehensibility" a requirement for existence? (Note, you can say yes or no :D. Both possibilit...
Interesting conclusion, that, since the expression "interpretation of God" is not present in the OP, and he refers to "my problem with God" (not "with...
I can see X'. It's right there in the computer screen. And I can see GreyScorpio's post, in the same place, a bit above. Since I can see them, they ex...
Some questions you'll have to address: 1) Empiricism. Is it true that if we have not apprehended X with our senses, then X does not exist? Look for co...
Well, Muslim states appeared in the first generation of Islam; Mohammed's career was defined by his relationship with states around his area; and ther...
Yes. In other words, apostates and blasphemers. (Remember that the Emperor was also Pontifex Maximus and, in at least some cases after Commodus, divin...
I understand this viewpoint, and it is certainly the most pragmatic -- it is what politicians should be focusing on. But from a long-range historical ...
Tom, all of those events (killings and marriages) have been observed in many other kinds of states than Islamic ones, including Pagan, Christian, Hind...
No doubt, because they are states. All it takes to establish that is to observe that Islamic minorities in non-Islamic states do not kill all of those...
A religion is more violent in proportion to its entanglement with the state, given that the state has the monopoly on violence. In the Islamic traditi...
The expression "Proof of God" refers to some literary productions, the most famous of them being the arguments for the Prime Mover (Aristotle's "Metap...
Yes, but we still can distinguish between fiction and history; there is some ingredient that is present in one and missing in the other (and, or, vice...
Well, productivity is swell, of course, and nowadays we have much less to fear from wild animals, the occasional thunderstorm, etc. But there are stil...
Take a look at the old Stoic conception of the cosmopolis (the universal polis). That was the first conception of a citizen detached from local politi...
There are two meanings to the expression "the history of X": 1. The series of events 2. The product presenting the series of events. We call both of t...
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