50,000 Contradictions

Submitted by Linda Haslam (United States), Jul 2, 2009 at 10:30

Excuse me! 50,000 contradictions in the Bible? Where do these numbers come from? Because we Christians have been free to question our faith, including the validity of our Bible; I am going to chalk these numbers up to Taqiyya--the Islamic Principle of Lying.

Okay. Here are a few more statistics. My source is the Center for the Study of Political Islam. While there are over 300 references in the Koran to Allah and fear, there are only 49 references to Love. 39 of these are negative. 25 of the 39 are in verses saying that Allah does not love the nonbeliever. The remaining 14 admonish such things as "love of money." This leaves 10 verses, 3 of which command Muslims to love Allah. 2 say that Allah loves the believer. Now we're down to the last 5. 4 of the 5 are about the love of kin and love for other Muslims. The last verse asks Muslims to give what they love to charity. That verse sounds pretty tolerant --until one learns that Muslim charity if for Muslims only.

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