(September 25, 2022 at 5:03 am)Believe Heart Wrote: By the way, the Guardian newspaper has examined the issue with an impartial eye really well.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...isha-truth
The article just pleads people not to take Hadith verses that say Aisha's age literally and then it tries to tie it with "medieval propaganda" that wanted to portray Muhammad as a philanderer and lustful, which is ludicrous because polygamy and slave-owning are already making him look like a philanderer and lustful person.
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"
