(February 12, 2018 at 7:42 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Did Muhammad exist? Maybe. Did a traveling Jewish preacher exist 2000 years ago, and did he manage to piss off both the Jewish rulers and the Romans? It's likely.The Yeshua ("Jesus") character was imaginary but he was based on a composite of the three main Jewish rebel leaders of the time. It was a political story written as a religious story.
There are always con-artists claiming to get direct revelations from an imaginary sky-daddy.
Uthman's committee wrote the Koran with the imaginary Mohammed cast as a religious leader in order to sell Uthman's political agenda.
