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  • In my opinion, Allah would be the most unforgiving god from another religion. If one truthfully examines the Koran for what it really is, they will find that Muslims do not have religious precept even resembling grace. Besides that Islam teaches that salvation is based on ones' good works. I believe that any religion that has no concept of grace and believes that a person's salvation is based on works must natrually have a spitful and unforgiving god. Praise God I am a Christian saved by grce through faith alone!!!!!!!!!
  • #1: Satan - yes, there are actually satanists out there; and they think grace and forgiveness are crap. #2: Kali - at least as conceptualized by the Thugi and indeed by most Hindus until she was "re-imaged" in recent years a wholly benevolent mother figure -- but then is there anyone less forgiving of outsiders than a mother defending and avenging her children? As for Allah - in Islam, Allah is "forgiving" but in the sense of "magnanamous. He forgives people because he's so big and great and they're so small and insignificant.... but only when he feels like it. He does not do it out of love, because, to the Moslem, to say that "God loves" is to insult God, because it necessitates that God wants, cares, and can be hurt - i.e. that He is not "all powerful" as they conceive it. ("For your Col. Lawrence, mercy is matter of passion. For me it is merely good manners. You may be the judge as to which is the more reliable." Prince Feisal(Alec Guinness) in Lawrence of Arabia) As for any religion where "salvation" isn't based on grace but on works being spiteful and unforgiving ... well, 1) that would include Buddhism in all its forms except Pure Land Buddhism, Shintoism, Judaism (to some extent at least), and arguably Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy and 2) the statement itself doesn't exactly overflow with grace and the milk of human kindness. Thai Buddhism, of which I have great personal experience, certainly has a lot that is ridiculous and, as I see it, wrong about it (*see note), but it certainly is 1) based on works and 2) extraordinarily UN-spiteful, and most forgiving - at least personally, socially and legally: "repentance" is accepted in many cases by the courts and felons - even ones guilty of multiple homocide - may get off with a penitential stint as a monk for a couple of years. *Note: before you great defenders of political tolerance and multi-culturism get all high-and-mighty about my statement that Thai Buddhism is in many ways ridiculous, answer this: what do you think of a "Buddhist" who spends a quarter of his income on lottery tickets, and spends another quarter of it "making merit" in offerings to idols (including Ganiche, Braman, the Chinese triad, and the Virgin Mary, as well as Buddha) praying to Buddha to arrange things so he wins the lottery and can engage in a life of wanton self-indulgence while out-shining the Joneses in conspicuous consumption? What do you think of a barren woman praying for a child to a dead guy as God, who when he was alive, didn't believe in God, didn't believe in petitionary prayer, and didn't believe in making babies? What do you think of Buddhist monks who think and teach Buddha was Thai, all their kings were Bodisatvas on the throne, and Buddha's in death, and who raise most of their money selling fortunes, casting horoscopes, and selling magical amulets for good luck? Thai Buddhism is essentially Animism with a few Buddhist principles added to the mix. And what's more, far from evolving out of these "primitive" vestiges, it is devolving into them. It is becoming more materialistic and hedonistic AND also more superstitious all at the same time.

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