(July 14, 2020 at 12:03 am)Belacqua Wrote:(July 13, 2020 at 11:47 pm)Eleven Wrote: Disliking a corrupt belief system is not bigotry. I respect people, Muslims even, but never confuse that with requiring to respect a silly religious belief.
Would you like to talk about Muslim religious beliefs?
What precisely in Islam is "in infancy" and what precisely prevents Muslims from progressing?
Creationism, beliefs in jinns and other mythical creatures and events.
For instance, in 2006 Ziauddin Sardar, Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Arts at the City University, London, gave a lecture to the Royal Society where he did start with some of the contributions Muslims gave in the ancient pas but then he concluded:
“scientific” experiments have been devised to discover what is mentioned in the Qur’an but not known to science—for example, the programme to harness the energy of the jinns. . . . This reductive fundamentalism now embraces Creationism and is generating a growing movement for “Intelligent Design” in the Muslim world. . . .
These two trends, the fundamentalist and the mystical, suggest that real science has almost evaporated from Muslim consciousness. In a recent survey, Nature noted, today’s Muslim states “barely register on indices of research spending, patents and publications.” And it concludes the situation is not just bad; it is set to get worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7DdkI72GfI
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"