PCMadness, you have painted yourself into a corner...

Submitted by Saladin (United Arab Emirates), Jun 8, 2006 at 13:03

and the only thing now you can do is clutch at straws or make personal attacks.

And believe me, no one here is trying to convert anyone here unless they be christian missionaries (that's their profession).

Quran asks you questions like these to make you face the reality and come out of denial, like your shrink.

That's why it says of itself that in it there is a healing ...

10:55 If every soul that has done evil possessed all that is in the earth, he would offer it for his ransom; and they will be secretly remorseful when they see the chastisement, and justly the issue is decided between them, and they are not wronged. Why, surely to God belongs everything that is in the heavens and earth. Why, surely God's promise is true; but the most of them have no knowledge He gives life, and makes to die, and to Him you shall be returned.

O men, now there has come to you
an admonition from your Lord, and
a healing for what is in the breasts,
and a guidance, and a mercy to the believers.
Say: 'In the bounty of God, and His mercy --
in that let them rejoice; it is better than
that they amass.

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