(April 19, 2020 at 9:24 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Details are actually what matters. As I said, to get a feeling of why the hadith methodology works, one simply has to delve into it. Being able to spot false quotes about your favorite writer is the best analogy I can think of.
And that's why those bad Hadiths should be true because Muhammad claimed obvious lies in Quran like that he rode on a winged horse, met Jinns and had conversations with them - he is established liar and liars and conmen also do other bad stuff. Why is that so hard to understand?
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"
