(October 14, 2014 at 4:03 pm)genkaus Wrote: Its not anti-Muslim propaganda, its anti-Islam propaganda.
How is it propaganda to point out that Islam has some horrendous ideas in its holy text?
Quote:Did they distinguish it from other forms of Islam?
Absolutely.
Quote:However, all of them frequently do speak out against the Quran itself.
True.
But as Harris states, the Qur'an is "a mother load of bad ideas". Don't you agree?
The fact that the majority of Muslims don't follow it has nothing to do with what it actually says.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
