02-19-2019, 02:05 PM
(02-19-2019, 11:35 AM)David Horn Wrote: No religion of any stripe is evil in and of itself. It's only evil when practiced by evil people. Of course, religion is the prefect foil for the larcenous and power hungry. It's its own justification.
Mohammed was a warlord who beheaded a poet for mocking him. He also had sex with a 9-year-old, which means evil by most civilized societies' definition. (I think Mo might have had schizotypy, a mental disorder characterized by magical thinking, paranoid fears and egocentric misperceptions of reality.) Islam commands its adherents to imitate Mohammed, so it's evil. Of course most Muslims don't really imitate Mo, they just follow their culture. It would be absurd to say that "the Muslim community" is evil, but Islam as a body of ideas is.