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Originally Posted by Waarnemer
And what you wrote surely qualifies as even less then a straw man argument. Seriously this thread is about intellectual restrictions in the Islamic world not about your poorly off content attacks on a book Im sure you didn't read.
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Not really. The thread thus far was only a piece of news about some event which can give place to discusion in more than just one direction. Yours, or his.
But if your intention was to
intellectually restrict it into just one direction, you should have been clear about it.
Having said that, without digging into the book I sense some kind of scientistic (not necessarily scientific) inquisition trend over Man's spiritual beliefs.
Truth being told, it is your world of materialistic beliefs that is crumbling, more than the world of people with a strong spiritual beliefs. Your defeat is inside you.
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