Greetings

[Whirling Moat]

Peace...


I am Whirling Moat.  

I am a theist of sorts...I beleive in God, however, I do not believe in a god besides Man...I do believe in the sanctity of the scriptures of the Abrahamic faiths and certain others, however, I do not believe that these scriptures were revealed by a formless, magical being sitting on a throne in the clouds, instead I believe that were revealed to humanity by Men who by variuos methods were raised into the Divine State.  I also believe that the Author of the scriptures did not intend for the student to take the entire message literally.  

I am a experienced blogger on these types of forums and so while I am here to challenge Atheism ( I am being forthright) I will make my arguments in a respectful manner and without malice.

[Ihateyoumike]

As long as you're an experienced enough blogger to know to follow the rules, we'll all get along just fine.

Welcome aboard!

[Cecilie]

Welcome Whirling Moat.

[McQ]

Welcome, Whirling Moat. I like your refreshing forthright-ness and find your spiritual stance quite interestIng. I hope you have some interesting thoughts to share as well.

[wildfire_emissary]

Welcome to HAF.
Do you like castles and ivory towers?

[Tank]

Hi WM

Welcome aboard, I've been away for a couple of weeks an I'm playing catch up on my greeting duties!

Regards
Chris

[Inevitable Droid]

I am a theist of sorts...I beleive in God, however, I do not believe in a god besides Man...I do believe in the sanctity of the scriptures of the Abrahamic faiths and certain others, however, I do not believe that these scriptures were revealed by a formless, magical being sitting on a throne in the clouds, instead I believe that were revealed to humanity by Men who by variuos methods were raised into the Divine State.  I also believe that the Author of the scriptures did not intend for the student to take the entire message literally.

Drat.  I wish I had read Whirling Moat's introduction earlier.  I had no idea that when he called himself a Muslim, he was redefining the term so idiosyncratically.  And now, unfortunately, I think he may have left us. :verysad:

Whirling Moat, if you ever return, I would enjoy discussing your words above.  My interest is curiosity rather than dispute.  You seem to view Islam as a system of thought and behavior that can lead to self-actualization, or, if you prefer, self-divinization.  I view self-actualization as one of the four great practical goods of a sane and competent society, the other three being personal responsibility, benevolence, and fairness.  If Islam, employed in your idiosyncratic manner, can help a person self-actualize, then I would want to extract from it the essence that allows it to do that, and discard the remainder.