Dan Gan

[bar_khela]

With all respect to your opinion and how you felt, I feel there is no need to demand an apology from someone who does not feel any remorse of what he had done. You apologize to someone because you realized that you have done wrong. Not because someone (in power such as a moderator) demanded it. Not because you wanted to create a new thread to bash the Bible and wage jihad (total war) against Bible believers. Not because you wanted to continue to promote your Islamic agenda after saying farewell. Cutting and pasting from anti-Bible web sites and calling it a debate in a place where Bible believers gathered is like posting pornography.

You cannot act or pretend to be mature if you are not.


It is just my 0.1 cent opinion.

Peace.

First and foremost, let me start off by saying that I originally posted on "Losing Jesus' Language" in order to defend my faith. It was you who posted the following excerpt from Christianity Today:


Persecution of Assyrians during the past several centuries has centered around their Christianity, not their ethnicity. It is only in the 19th and 20th centuries that ethnicity has come to play a role in the Middle East as a source of friction.

Records from the 19th century are plentiful and clear: Islamic governments treated all "people of the Book" as tolerated second-class citizens. The Assyrians were subjected to poll taxes levied against non-Muslims and the oppressive feudal system prevalent in the Middle East, which combined to keep the Assyrians poor and starving.


In Logic, I learned the nature of conditional statements. Here's one for you:

If Dan posts against Islam, then Kevin will be provoked.

The first part of the sentence is called the antecedent. The second part of the sentence is called the consequent

If Kevin is provoked, then Dan will whine

If you really didn't want me to post about Islam here, then you would not have provoked me several times since you've joined this forum (considering how sensitive I am). You would not even have mentioned Islam on a 'Christian forum' since its similar to 'pornography.'

However, you like provoking me. Then when I ask you to prove your accusations, you 'cut and paste' weak Hadiths from anti-Islamic websites. Subsequently, you realize that you have no substantial evidence apart from the hearsay you cling so tightly to, so finally, you say something like "Posting Islam here is just a waste of bandwidth.....this is a Christian forum.....this forum is this....you can't say that.....I didn't join this forum to hear this....."

Cry me a river.

You fear me. You fear, since this is a 'Christian forum,' that I just might infiltrate through your faith or the faith of other Christians on this forum. Had you been confident about your faith, you'd welcome dialogue with me.

But any man who decides on the soundness of an argument before it iss argued is a fool.

Paul, the one whom you brown-nose metriculously, stated that this forum was not created to discuss theology. Consider the following construction:

Peshitta.org was not created to discuss theology
Christianity is theological
Therefore Peshitta.org was not created to discuss Christianity.

And therefore, this is not a 'Christian forum." If that is true, then all faiths are welcomed here (since we're not here to discuss faith but Aramaic primacy), as the webmaster stated numerous times to my defense.

Furthermore, Paul stated that all faiths are to be respected. However, you slander my faith, then you throw your hands up like a coward and say 'If you want to discuss your faith, go to....'

Give me a break, buddy.

Cutting and pasting from anti-Bible web sites and calling it a debate in a place where Bible believers gathered is like posting pornography.

Any educated person who has written a term paper for a professor knows that one must use sources to strengthen one's argument. Those sources are usually quotations from experts in a given field of study. For my purposes, I quote experts in Oriential Studies, who've spent years researching issues I have no time for.

It is you who 'cuts and pastes' Hadiths, although you disregard the strengths and weaknesses of the chain of transmission for the given Hadith. Ironically, you do so from anti-Qu'ranic websites, though you accuse me of the same foul action.

Not because you wanted to continue to promote your Islamic agenda after saying farewell.

I defended myself. You initiated the topic from the Christianity Today quotation. Had you kept the topic restricted to "Losing Jesus' Language," I would not be posting right now. All of this could have been avoided.

With all respect to your opinion and how you felt, I feel there is no need to demand an apology from someone who does not feel any remorse of what he had done. You apologize to someone because you realized that you have done wrong. Not because someone (in power such as a moderator) demanded it

I apologized to Andrew because I love Andrew. We've been conversing on this forum for nearly eight years. Why then would you try to ruin our reconciliation? What type of 'Bible believer' are you?

You better take it easy, newcomer.

If we were face to face, you wouldn't utter a single word to me in disrespect. You can hide underneath the shade of these text windows, but face to face, you'll melt.

No, I do not like you. However, I will respect you. Therefore, do not post about me. Do not post for me or against me. Stay clear of me and I will of you.

Finally, I belong here because I am an 'Aramaic primacist' in the sense that I believe the Gospel was originally composed in Aramaic, in either oral or written form. What I think about the Gospels now is a different story. But that's where you and I differ.