Was Prophet Mohammed a caravan thieve?

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, run with it.  I believe there are countries because I've heard about them from a guy who got it from a guy.  Trans where now?  Nah.  Bob never told me that steve heard jim talking about it.

It just doesn't meet my very rigorous standards for belief and process.

If you think about it, it really does come down to mouth to ear, we just have the fake impression that we get these informations from some pure source.

For you, I guess?  You'd have to limit those comments to yourself and people who believe that countries exist for the reason that you do.  

I don't know what a pure source has to do with anything.  Which of the two of us believes in such a thing..do you imagine?  I'm just trying to help you understand why what bob told jim doesn't cut it for me.

Hell, we can just assume..as I always suggest, that bob told jim exactly what magic book says and that it's all true.  These would still be poor demonstrations of that truth.  That doesn't change no matter how we arrange the other blocks in the tower. Is this not useful information to you, in service of the goal of helping others to understand islam? If what you want people to understand about islam is that it's full of sloppy thinking and poor choices...by all means, proceed. If you want a thoughtful person to hear what you have to say and think "I can understand why he believes that" - then you're going to have to find some way to overcome common obstacles that involves more than the absurd denial of their existence alongside a refusal to hold to your own chosen metrics.

Perhaps ask yourself how a christian could effectively communicate and convince you of the god-man or the accuracy of their magic books claims. You and I have more in common on this subject than you imagine.