(March 15, 2022 at 1:11 pm)akay Wrote: This human aspect did not come from his abstract human personality, but rather from the fact that he was a human being chosen by Allah to bear the responsibility of prophethood. Allah therefore purified him, taught him and sent him as a mercy to the world. Regarding this, Allah says: “And We have not sent you, [O Muḥammad], except as a mercy to the worlds. (107)” (Surah Al-Anbiya, 107).
That mentality of a "special man", chosen one, the messiah, is simply wrong. No man can know everything or be a perfect ruler or singlehandedly teach people about morality because for everything you need groups of people, as large as you can get, to discuss it and develop it, especially since they will be affected by the decisions.
And yet, it seems that this "special man" mentality is what most of today's religions preach and have been preaching for the last millennia.
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"
