'More merciful than Yahweh': Jack Miles on God in the Quran

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

What you found is that Allah is more merciful, consistently so, than in the Bible. Is that accurate?

Yes, it is. A friend asked me, what was the biggest surprise you discovered in writing the book? I said, Allah is more merciful than Yahweh.

To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2019/01/22/more-merciful-than-yahweh-jack-miles-on-god-in-the-quran/

[trotsky]

1. That's like saying smallpox isn't as bad as the plague.

Good news, I guess?

[Act_of_Reparation]

2. Of course he is.

He was created 2,000 years after Yahweh.

[guillaumeb]

3. Tell that to the Muslims who know that the words al Lah refer to "the one God".

Last edited Thu Jan 24, 2019, 01:43 PM - Edit history (1)

The God of Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus.

[Voltaire2]

4. So it can't be more or less merciful if it is

the same tooth fairy.

[Major Nikon]

8. It's not a contradiction, because you just don't understand

Either that or you're misframing.

[Voltaire2]

9. Maybe Muslims get a better deal?

I hadn’t considered that angle.

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. Odd.

My copy of Thor: The Dark World says the character of Thor was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Larry Lieber.

[guillaumeb]

6. In the name Stan Lee,

is Stan abbreviated from Stanley?
Or does he spell it Stanlee?

Stanlee Lee?

[Lordquinton]

7. Stanford

Or perhaps his parents were into the outdoors and named him Stanislaus.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. No.

It's the long form of "Sta"

[edhopper]

11. His real name was Stanley Lieber

Larry Lieber was his brother.
He used "Stan Lee" early in his comic book career because he was saving his real name for serious novels he would write.
He never got around to those novels, but did alright in the Comic biz.

[guillaumeb]

12. Understood.

I ma not a reader of comic books, and interesting that he distinguished between comic books and "serious novels".

[edhopper]

13. He started as a very young lad

in the 1940s. Comics have gained some respect over the years.

[MineralMan]

14. You could have looked that up really easily.

Why didn't you?

Here's the very first listing in a search for Stan Lee on Google. His birth name is in the first sentence at that link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee

[guillaumeb]

15. And you could have addressed the actual topic.

Why did you avoid it?

[MineralMan]

16. I did not participate in your thread until your useless question

about Stan Lee's birth name.

I will not participate in it any further, either. Your new focus on Islam is puzzling, at best. I'm not interested in it.

[guillaumeb]

17. Thank you.

[MineralMan]

18. There is no need to thank me.

I'm not interested in your current fascination with Islam.

You seem to be waffling all over the place with regard to religion these days. I see it as symptomatic of something, really. And it's not something I'm interested in. I am, however, interested in why you did not bother to look up Stan Lee's birth name, but instead went on a multi-post set of nonsense about it.

Google.