The elephant at DanielPipes.org

Submitted by PJ (United States), Sep 30, 2006 at 20:45

For those who might have misunderstood my quote from a poem (The Blind Men and the Elephant): I didn't mean to attack Islam or the Pope-- I agree with Pope Benedict that Moslems, Christians and Jews believe in the same God-- one source of all being, whom we can never fully comprehend.

So we're foolish (like the blind sages) when we start talking about the Trinity, the Incarnation, the derivation of the Arabic Name from the Hebrew (or was it vice versa?)-- the starting point was a sublime revelation, as to Moses with the burning bush.

And of course the atheist posters will earnestly tell us it's all an illusion-- the "6 blind men of Industan" were hallucinating, they just imagined the elephant. But that's not the moral of the poem, which can be found at:
http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/blind_men_elephant.html

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