(April 3, 2022 at 11:48 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(April 3, 2022 at 8:40 am)Klorophyll Wrote: I think you're aware here that you are committing an ad populum? Be that as it may, I wouldn't consider 1,9 billion people to be a small minority.
That's 5th of the world's population and it's probably smaller because most of those Muslims (who believe him) are not allowed to say that they don't believe him. So it seems that most Muslims don't believe Mohammad because it makes sense but because they will be killed.
This doesn't seem to follow. Just as the existence of doctrines about hell doesn't demonstrate Christians live in fear of it, the existence of a death penalty doesn't necessarily entail that their belief is on account of it. Additionally, though I don't know the extent to which it matters in practical terms, but the death penalty applies to only certain forms of apostasy.