(April 16, 2020 at 7:15 am)WinterHold Wrote:(April 16, 2020 at 7:02 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Muhammad was some guy who liked to be alone in caves and one day he claimed that he had some conversations with an angel who told him how and when to beat women, Jews, Christians, and other nonsenses. So if you have any sobriety you can see that Muhammad was already a con artist, not much different than Joseph Smith.
Muhammad didn’t write anything down because he was illiterate, so years after he died and after many of people he talked to died or were killed in wars, some people talked to people who claimed to have known him about what did Muhammad say and they all wrote it down into a book known today as Koran.
So, as a con artist, Muhammad was probably involved in many delinquent deeds and there are indeed some accounts of his crimes written in Hadiths which some Muslims avoid because they don’t want to hear bad stuff about Muhammad, although they were written by Muslims.
I am impressed immensely by the con artist who managed to convince 2 billion people with his lie, prolonging for 1400 years; his lies remained so alive in a book that nobody could mess with:
https://atheistforums.org/thread-60183.html
It's very odd that a con artist would achieve such success.
Actually; I believe in what he said.
It's not so impressive since in Islam people are punished by death if they doubt Muhammad and leave 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"