Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by rayiner on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:46PM
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She was fired for saying that Muslims and Christians worship the same god, which is literally heresy according to many Christians: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/20/460480698/do-christians-and-m.... Jews and Muslims reject the trinity, which is an essential part of the confession of faith in most branches of Christianity. So it’s quite loaded to say that the Jewish and Muslim god is “the same” as the Christian god.
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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by idlewords on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:05PM
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It's exactly the same God. Islam is basically Judaism fanfic, and Muslims accept Jesus as a prophet of God (though denying his divinity). Christians are upset about the Mohammed thing, and about the two other faiths downgrading Jesus, but there's no question that the dude doing the smiting in the Old Testament is the same God in all three Abrahamic traditions.
Different religions are going to have angry doctrinal differences by definition, but you can't let that obscure the obvious. We're not talking about tengrism or Brahma here.
Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by jtbayly on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:01PM
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Right. That’s my point. It’s simply not an example of cancel culture.