[TML] China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 27 Aug 2007 at 21:54, Richard Aiken wrote:

> Ah.  So it's a distinction without a difference, in Christianity, because
> there's no "official" end to prophecy.  But in Islam, you need to always
> cite chapter and verse (or rather surrah) of what the Prophet said.  You
> can't ever claim divine inspiration, as that would be prophecy.  Right?
> 
> If so, on the face of it, that *should* lead to logical, reasoned debate
> rather than fanatical extremes.  All you could possibly disagree about is
> the meaning of human words, no matter the Spirit behind them.  But then
> again, the history of this list proves that its possible to disagree
> violently on canon without ever claiming divine inspiration to support a
> particular view. :-)

Mohammed had seen what sort of arguments the Christians got into 
about stuff and *tried* to forestall a lot of that in Islam. That's 
why only the original Arabic text is valid and translations aren't 
"really" the Koran.

Of course, this has some built-in booby-traps too. 
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com