Any questions on Islam?

[EGross]

Well, given that there are bibles older than Islam, it would be easy to compare and see which one got modified, if at all. That's the problem with conspiracies, ("The Jews took out every mention of Mohammed from their holy books", for example), when the physical exvidence is contradictory (this is not to validate the older stories, just to invalidate the later ones!)

I had a similar interaction with Mike Brown (we were supposed to have a public debate at one point, but due to scheduling problems he lucked out with Shmuely Boteach), who said that while he was an assimilated Jew, he was really into drugs and then he found Jesus and was saved. I asked him if the same brain that thought drugs were cool was the same bring that thought Jesus was great, isn't that a red flag that your rational thought about spirituality or expanding consciousness is not to be trusted?

This is the same answer I would pose here, where God supposedly gave us reason, and yet (for the sake of argument) he choose not to have me born into Islam. Therefore he will help me remain outside of Islam and at the end when he asks why I was not Islam, I would answer "Hey, it was you who gave me a brain and the ability to reason and supposed free choice. I used the best resources you gave me and did the best I could since you directed me to the path I took."

And if he doesn't like that, screw Allah. That is not a rational God, but a sadistic one.

And that is where the argument that all religions are the same (they cannot be from the dogmatic point of view, but they are from the athiest point of view), or that the right religion will come along so you can worship god the right way. But since you are the one doing the choosing, and God only wants one and He isn't saying (he's been mute for 2000 years, supposedly), then it's a fools choice that Islam is giving here.