Can Muslims just leave Jesus alone

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Apr 6, 2017 at 05:01

Dear Dr Pipes, Your reader Usman from Pakistan wrote a long essay attempting to 'prove' that God cannot have a son and Jesus was not God's son. For crying out loud, Muslims are most welcome to create whatever mythology that suits them but why do they interfere in other people's mythology! This is one thing that Muslims around the world need to understand: their beliefs cannot and should not make other people's beliefs either wrong or sinful.

By the way, if God can create a world, He can certainly create a son. And, yes, he can create a son via immaculate conception. So Jesus, son of Mary, can surely be God's son. And I am not even a Christian! Please leave Jesus alone, Mr Usman.

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