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Is this your intellectual property?
Rest of the paragraph which I could not post due to size limitation:
"[E]specially those savage "plunderers of the world" who occupied God's land in direct violation of the Law of Moses, which Jesus viewed himself as fulfilling. They shall not live in your land."
It's on page 122 of the book.
Shouldn't Reza Asslan be spending his time and efforts researching and exploring more about Prophet MooHamHead and his true identity and origons...instead of pretending to be Christianity scholar ? I have read conflicting stories in some old text about the Prophet that he never really existed ....or rather he was a little boy in a brothel where his mother worked....!?
Reza ASSlan is just trying to portray himself as the scholar that he is not! He is to be ignored.
I don't know...I kind of like this book. I'm halfway through it. It has a lot of history in it that's quite interesting. For example, reading this book you will see where the numbers 72 and 12 (72 disciples of Imam Hossein, 72 virgins, 12 Imams) came from. Jesus supposedly had 72 disciples and 12 apostles. I always knew that these two numbers (along with number 7) have great religious significance (7 days of the week, Abraham going back and forth in the desert 7 times, 7 times around Ka'abah, God creating the heavens in 7 days, even the 72 followers of Siavash in ancient Persian mythology) and have been recycled from one religion to another, but this book sheds more light on it.
Also, what I didn't know was that before Jesus, there were a number of other people who had come about and claimed to be the "King of the Jews" and the messiah and who performed miracles in the same area, some of whom actually had larger followings than Jesus. All of those guys suffered the same fate as Jesus: they were crucified or beheaded by the Romans. But they were all forgotten, because none of them had the propaganda machine and the ground game that Jesus had. Jesus just got lucky because decades after his death someone (Mark?) started to write about him, and he became a legend. None of the other guys has that kind of luck. Otherwise, a guy by the name of "The Egyptian" would be followed today by the billions instead of a guy named Jesus!
Interesting! You'd think and expect that he'd also write about the pedophile prophet, but since he could do no wrong, then I suppose it'd be a mote point! Besides, I am sure he's smart enough to realize that in the Deen-e Mobin-e Essalm, you could lose your head by writing the truth about the so called prophet!
You have a point there. He should write about the pedophile prophet. But he won't, for the reasons that you mentioned, which is quite unfortunate. Someone needs to have the balls to reveal the true identity of that bandit pedophile.
Very interesting observation. I like to add two points.
1- Christianity owes its worldwide expansion to the Romans and their decision to unite their colonies and satellite estates with the aid of a religion, hence Christianity.
2- There were a number of prophets at the time of Mohammed too and one was even more popular but was assassinated on the order of Mohammed. Another was a woman who had gathered many followers and she was killed too. The same happened in Iran when Baab and Bahaullah claimed to be messengers of god with other people staking the same claim. It seems that when the society is ready it creates a number of prophets and at most one gets successful. Just like many businesses suddenly with the advent of a new technology launching similar products and one becoming the real dominant force in the market.
Thanks for the info Divaneh. I did not know this about Mohammad's time. Quite interesting. It all goes back to the Semitic messianic prophecies that dominated the culture of those groups of people, Jews & Arabs, at the time. It lent itself to those claims.
On another note, I find the recycling of religious mumbo jumbo--especially religiously significant numbers such as 7, 12, and 72--quite fascinating. Jesus supposedly had 72 disciples and 12 apostles. In Islam, God gives you 72 virgins. Imam Hossein had 72 followers who died with him. Shia religion has 12 Imams....I'm sure there are similar connections in Judaism as well if someone takes the time to look.
72 virgins.....vir-fucking-gins. How much more "divine" a religion can get to reward its followers with pussy??
I mean come - on!
That god is very horny and bloodthirsty...
LOL
Nice one AO.