(January 26, 2018 at 7:42 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I've always thought that Ramandan thoroughly proves Islam has human origins. After all, it moves around seasons, which means when it's in the summer, and if you are living in Sweden, or Canada, the fasting requirement becomes impossible.
Now I know that Islamic scholars have said that there are ways around the fasting if you live in one of those places.
That's not the point though, the point is that this is one of the 5 pillars of Islam, not some obscure side rule. It would be inconceivable that an all knowing God would make such an obvious mistake. It's easy to see how a man from the middle East, who had limited knowledge of the world as a whole would make that mistake though.
The meme of abstaining from food is not unique to Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
And in addition the idea of the "5 pillars" really are nothing more than the same thing all religions try to sell, the idea that a label constitutes a patent on good through a divine source. Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists ALL have their claims of what to do and how to do it in order to live a good and moral life.
"The New Atheism" by Victor Stenger makes the comparisons of appeals to "good" as false arguments as to where our behaviors come from.
There is no patent or cure all in religion. There are only good individuals and bad individuals and our behaviors are in our evolution, not on old mythology.
