Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christianity and Islam - Towards a better understanding (II). Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 04:14:24 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 19 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ham@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Hameed Ahmed Mohammed) writes: >The denial of Jesus's devinity ( and as a matter of fact Mary's divinity) is >presented in the Quran as a topic of dislouge at the Day of Judgement between >God Almighty and Jesus. > And when God said," O Jesus son of Mary, did you say unto men, 'Take > me and my mother as gods, apart from God?' No Christians see Mary as a "god". The Catholic position on the intercession of Mary and the saints has been discussed at length here - basically Catholics see it as legitimate to ask saints (including Mary) to pray for us, but we do not "worship" them. Your argument is spoiled by this since it is unnecessarily offensive. If you want to argue against Christianity in a reasonable way you ought to make some effort to find out what Christians believe. I am sure you would find it very offensive if Christians were to argue against Moslems on the grounds taht Moslems believe Mohamed to be a "god". Matthew Huntbach