As a Muslim, what if all the virgins I'm promised are old Christian Nuns?
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Then they will surely have the time of their lives!!!\n\nAre you planning to die in the name of Allah soon?
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I would think they are Hindu...\n\nThe male dominated Hindu society would not allow the woman to decide the "religion" or the "up-bringing" of the offsprings.  Hinduism is more "Macho" than Christianity.  Christ's message is on the "female" or compassion/nurturing side of the Male personality and most of his early followers were women.  The ones who stood with him at the cross were the "holy women" and John, the Mystic.  Paul was not as "enlightened" and the later Roman Catholic Church" and the "male dominated" fundamentalist movements chose Paul's writings as the "organizational" structure.  It is Paul (a murderer) who places women at a disavantage in the Christian Churches.  John is the one that I like and now, Thomas and Mary Magdalen, finally...read their "Gospels" for an enlightment.  \n\nHinduism, with its "business of religious" paradigm,  is in a constant expansion mode and with India, because  of their "huge" population it becomes a "political" necessity.   Religion and the many feasts are used by the government and Chamber of Commerce "Diaspora" philosophy of marketing the culture through the religion.  Multi nationalist capitalists and the demons of  "Greed" and "lust for power" (called Mammon) that is "capitalism" does the same with Western  (evangelical) Chrisitanity  in other countries.  Now we have other Cultures (Hindu and Islamic)  with a religious spearhead,  expanding into our (stolen) territory in North America at least,  much as the Islamic empires of the Mediteranean are expanding into Europe, even as far as Russia,  with the Muslim religion spearhead, trying to "change the laws" under the "guise" of "freedom of Relgion".\nIn Canada, there is a Muslim "cabale" attempting to put Shariah law in Ontario and whole "communities" are being built around a Mosque, for "Muslims only".  This Ghetto-isation is what will eventually explode into societal divisions, 'civil strife" and gang and sectarian violence.  We have seen it often enough to know that we must "oppose" such theocratic societies to "infiltrate" our democracies and create "islands" of theocracies and autocratic and even totalitarian and "racists" enclaves in our towns and communities.  Democracy feeds on information.  Theocracies feed on MYTH.\n\nThe Russians are seeing the same phenomenon in their satellite (soviet)  states and in Mother Russia itself where the "Hare Krishnas...or ISKON, the fundamental wing of Hinduism) is building a temple in downtown Moscow with the assistance of Henry Fords grandson.  Religion is used by the "powers" of the demons of "MONEY" and "GREED",  as a spearhead to enter other countries.  Freedom of Religion is the Opiate ("try it for a few months and see", is their "come-on".) that will dull the mind of the population and make them "controllable" through the mechanism of "fear and temptation and guilt".  The priests are the "drug dealers" and the "pimps", or in religious terms, the "judas goats".\n\nCyril Borg, the Cyborg
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I don't think they would refuse any one who had a rudimentary understanding of Buddhism and could make the elders of the monastery believe that you had an altruistic motivation for wanting to become a monk.\n\nWith Compassion\nGeoffrey
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You could contact any one of the different religious orders or you could speak to a Catholic priest who can direct you.  There are Franciscan monks, Benedictine monks, etc so you will need to discern the different charisms (gifts) of each order and where God wants you to be.  God Bless You.
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Now that you're an adult, it's okay for you to know that many many people do not care to celebrate the birth of Jesus.  \n\nThink of youself as a minority and imagine everyone wishing you the gift of 72 virgins from Allah.  Would you get sick and tired of it after two months of being inundated with "the season?"  Every time you pay for a purchase, the clerk wishes you 72 virgins from Allah.  How long can you continue to be courteous?\n.
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You are called a Muslim.
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1.  Nuns choose to devote their lives to God alone and have the FREEDOM to leave this way of life.\n\n2.  Muslim women living in these religious dictatorships have NO choice/No rights\n\n3.  The Hi jab can be viewed (by those who appreciate freedom) as a tool to hide and degrade women in Arab society.  Does she have any choice but to cover herself?
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Actually, there's nothing in the Quran that speaks of any number of virgins in heaven, that is just a stereotypical rumor that some have decided to spread against Islam.\n\nIt DOES however, mention a great ammount of "houris" which is a non-gendered creature of light and beauty (no mention of any sexual nature), and is meant for both the men AND the women. No one is certain what their purpose is, we can only speculate.\n\nTo further answer your question, the descriptions of heaven aren't meant only for a man or woman, but both genders enjoy all of it's bounties. What few descriptions are given aren't necessarily and exact of heaven itself, but merely the best representation that can be given to us at this time. God tells us that even our greatest imaginations of the beauty and bounties of heaven cannot compare to the real thing, as it is beyond our understanding. So when the Quran describes heaven as "gardens beneath which rivers flow" it is simply giving us a small explanation in the best way that we can understand. The holy lands rest in the mostly barren deserts, so to describe that the heavens will consist of gardens and springs ("beneath which rivers flow") is showing the desert folk just how rewarding it can be, so that they will work for it, making the best of this life in preparation for the next.\nI hope this helped you.
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DONT LISTEN!\n\nit is NOT  a tenet of the muslim faith that they have to kill an infidel (non-christian) to get into heaven. i am a christian that has studid the muslim faith, and it definatly does not teach that anywhere in the Koran.\n\nthe koran does say that if they die as a marytr for Allah the automatically get into heaven, and they will have a 'preferred treatment' of sorts there.\n\nit is the modern extremist teachings that have equated martyrdom with acts of murder.\n\ni hope this helps you bro. i would like to encourage you to reasearch these sorts or spiritual question for yourself. there is nothing wrong with a christian reading the koran, or tanakh, or whatever. how can you beleive in anything if you dont know what you do not beleieve.
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1.  Mary was a virgin until Jesus was born, afterward their marriage was consummated.  \n2.  Yes it would have to, but don't hold your breath.\n3.  People are not in the Hell of Revelation, lost souls are in a place Jesus called Hades, the saved are in the presence of God.\n4.  He says he doesn't.
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thats messed up, i cant stand christians for that exact reason, always determined to preach to those who dont want it or need it. christians think everyone ''needs'' to listen to it, and that god tells them to shove it down unwanted throats, ex stripper preachers is wrong and wierd, what happens to the guys when their show has to go to the nuns?
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It is not " AS IF", nay it is.  Those who convert to another religion from Islam, are to be put to death.  Those who preach Muslims, are to be put to death, and those who praise other religion, are to be put to punished severally so they will learn never to do it again.\n\nMany have been Killed for converting, many have died for not converting, and many have been forced to convert.   These days, it is a big problem for the Christian in Egypt.  Girls go missing, the police refuse to help, and months later they are discovered converted to Islam, and forced to marry a Muslim man to keep them in the faith.  In India, two hindu girls were forced to convert, and when the family found them, they couldn't even sit with them in private to talk.  They had a Muslim woman watch them all the time.  Keeping the kids and the parents appart.  \n\nIt is not all Muslims who use force to convert others to their faith, but they consider it their duty to convert as many people as possible to Islam, not all by force, but some do, and when one of their leave Islam it is as a slap on the face of how one of them chose to convert while they are trying to convert all of us to Islam.\nConvert are to be put to death because they abondened their faith.  They don't have the freedom to choose.
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I think you should start you're own religion, and focus all your teachings on the holy ghost.\n\nyou speak like a prophet of the new times. :/
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no I (Chrsitian) wouldn't.  I'd pray they came back to my faith though.  I think muslims are a lot more hardnosed about that though.
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Yes you are mocking allah you blasphemious infidel, you will pay for this, and you will go to that place you mentioned and there will be no virgins there, only sex crazy women and poofters. (and most lawyers).
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u might want to get religious
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yep damn right! who gave them the right to pester me in my own home and try to indocrinate their belives on me..if i wanted to be a muslim i would visit a mosque,if i wanted to be a Christian or Catholic i would visit a church,if i wanted to be a "Jovey" i would probably insist that a family member killed me in my sleep..peronally i think its just a sub-christan cult for people too tight to buy their kids Xmas pressies