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Fascinating. Thank you.

Sufis do believe in and use the Koran.

"I am still learning" :-)

I didn't realize this was a debate. No one else had posted, so I thought I'd post what sprang to mind. It was certainly not my intention to stop this thread as you have so accused. Sorry to have posted on the wrong forum.

Go Chelsea! :up:

"I am still learning" Hello! I've had this forum bookmarked in my favorites for several months to check out and finally got around to registering today. Looks like a great forum and a great resource. A little about me: I am 30, live in the USA and attend a Unitarian Universalist church in...

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Publically state the Shahadah, "There is no God but God and Muhammad is His prophet," follow the Five Pillars, and you are a Muslim.

The difference is Shi'a and Sunni Islam is mostly a political one, over who should be the leader, as far as the religion goes, they basically believe the same thing.

Sufis are the mystical, or esoteric, branch of Islam. Many Sufi practitioners are organized into a very diverse range of brotherhoods and sisterhoods. Although many orders ("tariqas") can be classified as Shi'a or Sunni or even both, there are a few that are clearly not either Shiah or Sunni and...

All great religions will have a humanistic side to them, otherwise, they could not survive.

I do not agree that Atheists do not have a mission in life or lack focus, but I believe that is another topic. ;) As for the question, why believe in a God? I think the options in the poll are all reasons why people do believe in God. As for me, it just makes sense that something made this...

I think the issue is over the definition of God. Most religious folk think of God as Divine and a deity that must be worshipped. Pagans, for the most part, see God in everything, pantheism, if you will. God is nothing special, because everything is God.

Look hard enough and with an open mind and heart and similarities between all religions can be found.

Reform Judaism (also known as Progressive Judaism while in the U.K. Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism together make up Progressive Judaism) is a branch of Judaism characterized by: -The belief that an individual's personal autonomy overrides traditional Jewish law and custom. The individual...