Ad hominem arguments are the refuge of bigots. List your objections to my research and I shall reply.
1. I didn't make an ad hominem attack. I didn't call you names, or disparage you in any way.
2. Referring to someone as a bigot... that's a friendly way for you to start off here as a brand new member.
3. If you ARE a Muslim, then there isn't any harm in me asking you if you are. If you ARE a Muslim, you should be proud of it, and be happy to answer. If you are NOT, it should be just as simple for you to answer. Asking about your religious belief isn't an attack... it's a QUESTION.
4. As far as meeting your criteria before you'll bother to reply to me... umm... I'm pretty sure my day will go by just fine whether you reply or not.
Of course that person will get defensive if you accuse them of something what did you expect. lol
UmEsma,
Your profile says you're not a Christian, and you've resurrected an old dead thread started by a Muslim who's been banned, and you did this in order to make a post defending Islam.
So, I gather you're a Muslim?
Hello, I label myself as a Sabian. One of the four religions mentioned in the Quran. A Sabian, to my understanding, is a gnostic convert to Islam. Someone who does not pay the jizya. I’m not a Christian, not quite a Muslim, not a Jew by relation. I will tell you specifically what I’m viewing. I accept the Bishop of Rome to be infallible. I accept he Quran to be infallible. I am an ally to Israel. My questions are: Was Jesus, son of Mary, immaculately conceived? When you say Jesus was raised up to Allah from the cross, are you not speaking of the transfiguration? If the answers are yes, why does Palestine call the state of Israel an occupation?
Your answer is "YHWH and Allah are not the same." And, "There will never be peace in Israel." Are you even Muslim? I read the Quran and it said, "My God and your God are one."
I simply asked her if she was a Muslim.
I asked her that because she stated in her profile she was NOT a Christian,
and she seems in this thread to be defending Islam.
I didn't make an accusation, I just asked a simple question.
If she's NOT a Muslim, it's very easy to say so.
If she IS a Muslim, she should be proud and happy to answer that she is.
No reason for her to feel defensive over a simple question.
The only reason for a person not to answer a simple question, and to get rude and defensive, is if they have something to hide.
All I did was ask a simple question.
If I remember correctly, you asked me this too. An argument's validity should not be credited or discredited on the premise that its writer is either this or that religion. That is the definition of an 'ad hominem'. You attempt here to skew the perception of the reader by starting out asking questions of the poster's faith rather than refuting their arguments.
Ad hominem: (of an argument or reaction) directed to a person or to their character rather than to the position they are maintaining.
I'll admit that I do not know Maxwell from Adam, but I don't quite see where he bases the value of an argument on the arguer's point of view.
Now the characterization of an argument or starting point for a discussing matters a great deal. If he is trying to merely establish his audience, we do not have an ad hominem at work here.
In this day of PC, one cannot ask another their faith without the charge of ad hominem, even if it is just to establish a better idea of 'where they are coming from'?
It should have inherit relevance just by the fact that this is a place called Christian Chat.
context please. I never said someone has no right to speak here. I might have said 'not being a christian, you are not an authority on a certain topic...like regeneration'.You've asked me about it before, and if I remember right, a few lines down you said something like, and I'm paraphrasing, 'if you're not Christian you don't have a right to speak here'. That's called poisoning the well. 'You have an agenda, you're not a qualified arguer'.