RE: If Islam is a religion of peace why did it expand through military conquests?
January 18, 2014 at 6:01 pm
Providing for widowed women? Firstly, these weren't widows. They were virgins, and the only reason they'd have trouble finding men is that someone came, killed her friends and family, stole their stuff, and dragged her off to be raped. Then if she didn't satisfy him enough he could shave her head and throw her out on the street.
We have very different views on what the bible is like. This isn't because I'm making stuff up. It's because I'm not making excuses for a god that lets current human culture dictate what he says is right or wrong. You have this conclusion that Yahweh is a good person, and everything he does is right, so any time his actions don't fit what most civilized people believe is right, you have to make some sort of excuse for it, or maybe say he's mysterious and incomprehensible like other people have said. Incomprehensible, but undeniably good somehow.
It's a confusing book that can be used to justify pretty much everything.
We have very different views on what the bible is like. This isn't because I'm making stuff up. It's because I'm not making excuses for a god that lets current human culture dictate what he says is right or wrong. You have this conclusion that Yahweh is a good person, and everything he does is right, so any time his actions don't fit what most civilized people believe is right, you have to make some sort of excuse for it, or maybe say he's mysterious and incomprehensible like other people have said. Incomprehensible, but undeniably good somehow.
It's a confusing book that can be used to justify pretty much everything.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
