I'm fine with them building it , HOWEVER from my understanding , the city of NYC has turned down permits/applications for christian and jewish centers in the area similar to the proposed one, so there shouldn't be any favoritism shown.
Better to keep it in the family and procreate with your two young daughters then? (Lot)
Glass houses/stones.
I'm an atheist, so I fail to see your point about glass houses.
However, if it's my turn to play "Defend the Christians" today, I would merely point out that Mohammed played a wee bigger role in the founding of Islam (all Muslims strive to be like Him in every way), than Lot played in Christianity (a few verses of Genesis). Aside from that, they got him drunk almost to the point of unconsciousness, before having sex with him. Not to mention they weren't children, they were young married women, not 9 year old children.
the glass houses remark was made in reference to people saying one religion is better than the other was not meant to be directed at you.
With reference to the age I don' t know how old they were, but they were virgins by Lot's word when he was offering them up to be gang raped by the angry crowd. ( Genesis 19), back then that typically meant they were young.
That whole "they got him drunk to have sex with him to procreate" reeks of bullshit here's why:
1) The daughters could not have believed that there were no men in the world. They had just come from Tzo'ar where there would have been plenty of men.
2) The chances of two conceptions by two women on successive nights is very slim. It's much more likely that these pregnancies were the result of repeated incestuous activity. The chances of pregnancy resulting from a single random sexual act by a fertile couple is on the order of one in 50. One might conclude that the chances of both daughters becoming pregnant on successive nights would be one in 2,500. Further, the chances of both producing a boy would be about one in 10,000. However, women who live in the same household often find that their menstrual cycles are synchronized. So, the chances would be much more than 1 in ten thousand, but would still be a very unusual happening.
Of everything we know about incest today, it's much more likely that Lot himself was the incest perpetrator; his daughters were victims.
Fair enough. I just always find it odd that more people line up to bash Christians, so I try to do my part to even things out.
All of this assumes that the bible is 100% accurate, which it isn't so the argument is moot. However, from a biblical standpoint, Lot lied to the men and told them his daughters were virgins (they were both married and their husbands were actually in town somewhere - I'll find the verse later if you need it). He told tht to the gang of men becuse they came to rape man-ass, and that was his attempt to save booties. As far as whether or not he was aware that his daughters were fucking him in the cave, again - this story was written by a man, so its accuracy is compromised.
I only argued the point because you tried to draw a comparison between that incident, and Mohammed being a pedophile. There is no comparison - that was my only point.