(November 3, 2015 at 6:46 pm)abaris Wrote:Yes, the Moors educated Europe, but the Arabs who forced Islam on them were both ignorant and illiterate. So Islam cannot take credit for what it did not do. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.(November 3, 2015 at 6:42 pm)MTL Wrote: I would never belong to a religion,
but if I was going to convert to Islam,
I'd be an extremist...because that's the only version of Islam that I really think honestly reflects what Islam is.
Which is quite telling. Pity, I really had a high opinion of you.
It also reflects a perfect ignorance of what Islam was in the Middle Ages and what it provided to our western civilisation. Hint, we wouldn't even know the number zero and still go by Galen's teachings when it comes to medicine. But that's perfectly all right, since Islam always was and still is the most despicable religion of all.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
