(January 15, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Rayaan Wrote:I am going to tell you the same thing I tell Christians, which I already said in another post in this thread.(January 14, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The best 71 minutes you can spend on the subject.
The whole documentary is just sensationalism and based on the single fact that some historians were not able to find 'concrete' proof. It was a shamefully inaccurate and shoddy attempt to combine disjointed facts together, merely capitalizing on the Umayyad caliphate and its history when it came in touch with the the Roman empire and minted its own coins, and thus ignoring the masses of evidence and events recorded which support Islam coming into existence at the time of Muhammad as compared to this baseless theory. I'm just really laughing at all of this garbage that you're touting as genuine history.
And it ignores the earliest references to Muhammad which are recorded even in non-Muslim sources, as I mentioned here with a link.
Not even close to being somewhat historically accurate.
A history of making claims only proves that there is a history of making claims. All holy books make claims, and so what.
It still does not make any of the fantastic claims in the Koran or Bible true. It does not make man gods or prophets real.
"Prophet" "Oracle" "Soothsayer" are all the same superstitious garbage where humans claim to have a magic bat phone to a cosmic security guard.
Some of the places mentioned and some of the people mentioned in any holy book may have evidence for them. But those books are not history books or science textbooks. They are merely books of myth that represent the desires of the people that wrote them at that time.
The bible, Koran, Talmud, OT, Reg Vedas, Bhagavad Gita are all books of legends and myths reflecting the societies that wrote them at that time.
If you go by an apologist theologian you are going by a bias source. And many of them will claim the others books have truths in them too. But they are not doing that because they believe in those other god claims, they are doing that in order to distract you from questioning them.
The only unbias sources anyone should listen to are Historians who simply report events and what people believed without claiming their gods are real. The other ones who are unbias are archaeologists and anthropologists.
Of course the sources you have bought are going to sell you what you believe because they have an interest in gaining members. It gives them power over your mind.
