Recently, Neil Tyson made a video where he talked about that secularization of Judaism, of how Spinoza (who was Jewish) realized that magical thinking is no thinking at all, and to be a scientist (academic) you have to reject that, and he rejected the Bible, its fairytales, miracles, and superstitions, and therefore influenced many other Jews who became scientists (like Einstein).
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But, let's face it, something like that is yet to come to Islam.
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But, let's face it, something like that is yet to come to Islam.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
