(February 29, 2016 at 4:53 pm)robvalue Wrote: I don't think he even knows what secularism is. He seems to be living in a fantasy world comprised of religious dogma, mythology and awful propaganda. One of us two is hopelessly deluded. Maybe it's me, I don't know.
I really have tried to have a sensible conversation but I feel like the answers are so random and not even internally consistent that it's going in pointless circles. I can only assume he has never been to a secular country, or if he has, his institutionalised outlook finds it unsatisfactory.
The bigger problem with Atlas is his idea 'that only if the Quran was followed'. This of course ignores why the Hadiths exist to begin with; namely, that the Quran is so ambiguous that early followers went to great lengths to give it specificity through recorded sayings of Mohammed. The frustrating part is that if Atlas' thoughts were codified we would ultimately have the Atlas Hadiths, his interpretation.
