RE: Voltaire on Islam
June 16, 2016 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2016 at 11:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 16, 2016 at 11:12 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: The excerpt I quoted is from a letter, not a publication. It's difficult to say, if Voltaire could have said nothing about islam - the OP, despite providing the same quote 3 times, didn't find it prudent to include any context, so I guess we'll never know.That's why we exist, to provide the context between us the op didn't. I think, though, that the context was probably "I agree with this guy".
Quote:The relevance is, that OP chose one particular opinion of Voltaire, in order to create another fear-mongering sh*t-and-run thread about islam. Voltaire was pretty vitriolic about all religions, so choosing his quote in order to malign islam in particular is dishonest, to say the least. If there was an attempt at a discussion in the OP, rather than just the quote over and over - I probably wouldn't mind. Alas - there isn't.We're having a discussion about this in another thread. Allow me to suggest that the OP is not required to smear all religions at all times...and failure to do so is not dishonesty, or any other shitty thing you'd rather discuss. Besides...I;m here now, and I;m nothing if not efficient at smearing all religions- so we can fill that void real quick if you think that needs to be done as a sort of disclaimer to the quoted bit from Voltaire.
Quote:I don't know - have black Africans changed since Gandhi's times? I mean - for all I know, they might be living in "nakedness", trying to get cows, in order to exchange them for wives.Seems so, but I doubt ghandi's opinion would have (nor do I think they were rooted in any factual appraisal of africans as people in the first place). Voltaires opinion of islam..otoh......-is- factual and islam hasn't changed in those regards. We hear, constantly, that islam hasn't changed a jot or a tittle...that it can't...it's the final word and allahs protecting the book or some such silly shit....from muslims.
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