RayMcBlue: Like I always say, religion is harmful, not helpful. The reason is because God is imaginary. Religious delusion is hurting all of us.

tbaba12345:

This is nonsense.

In the first 500 years of Islam, Muslims were technologically, militarily and economically the most advanced in the world – innovating many new technologies and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge.

Christianity was never the reason for the European dark ages, but rather the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of barbarian tribes is the most glaringly obvious reason. Historians are generally agreed that the last great ancient, or classical period philosopher before the fall into the dark ages was the Christian thinker St Augustine!

For most of the last 500 years, technological advancement in the West started, and has mostly occurred, under highly religious non-democratic european monarchies and empires.

The vast majority of pioneering Western scientists were not Atheists, nor did they live under Secularism, but rather they were devout Catholics and even clergy (e.g. Roger Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Copernicus, Descartes, Pascal, Boyle and even the recent George Lemaitre, discoverer of the ‘big bang theory’…) or protestant Church (e.g. Newton) – and much scientific literature and almost ALL institutes of higher education and research were under patronage by the Catholic [and later Anglican] Church!

https://www.nairaland.com/1794405/islam-muslims-side-talk-station/20#26144328

tbaba12345:
This is nonsense.
In the first 500 years of Islam, Muslims were technologically, militarily and economically the most advanced in the world – innovating many new technologies and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge.
Christianity was never the reason for the European dark ages, but rather the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of barbarian tribes is the most glaringly obvious reason. Historians are generally agreed that the last great ancient, or classical period philosopher before the fall into the dark ages was the Christian thinker St Augustine!
For most of the last 500 years, technological advancement in the West started, and has mostly occurred, under highly religious non-democratic european monarchies and empires.
The vast majority of pioneering Western scientists were not Atheists, nor did they live under Secularism, but rather they were devout Catholics and even clergy (e.g. Roger Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Copernicus, Descartes, Pascal, Boyle and even the recent George Lemaitre, discoverer of the ‘big bang theory’…) or protestant Church (e.g. Newton) – and much scientific literature and almost ALL institutes of higher education and research were under patronage by the Catholic [and later Anglican] Church!
https://www.nairaland.com/1794405/islam-muslims-side-talk-station/20#26144328

tbaba12345: The FBI arrested a terrorist here in America. He had written about how evil the government was; that he believed his understanding of God and Scripture told him that he had to force others to follow his way of life; and that he was willing to give his life up for His Creator and His Cause. He had guns, weapons, and even explosives all ready for the attack, and was recruiting others to join his movement. He wanted to bomb places of worship of other faiths, because he believed only *his* faith deserves space to worship God.

It should have been big news in the media. His face should have been plastered all over Fox News and CNN, and his brazen plans of 'jihad' (religious war) would have provided incessant fuel to the government that they need to do more about radical religious terrorism and the threat of holy wars to America.

It should have been on the news, but it wasn't. That's because the man in question was not named Mustafa or Muhammad or Ahmad, but rather Robert James. And his skin color was not brown, but rather white. And the places of worship he wanted to bomb were not synagogues, but rather masjids. And his 'holy war' was not the Arabic word 'jihad', but rather the English phrase of fighting for 'liberty and God'.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/217850/so-did-you-guys-hear-we-caught-a-terrorist-last-week/

The selective highlighting of only 'Muslim' acts of terrorism and the alarmist attitude towards every punk kid that gets caught in a pseudo-jihadist trap set by the FBI constructs a narrative in the mind of the American population that only Muslims are responsible for terrorist acts, and that somehow all religious lunatics come from within the Islamic tradition. Crazies like Robert James are completely ignored.

- Yasir Qadhi


Note: 88% of domestic terrorist plots in USA since 1995 did not involve Muslims (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/04/19/467384/chart-right-wing-extremism-terror-threat-oklahoma-city/?mobile=nc)

tbaba12345:

This is nonsense.

In the first 500 years of Islam, Muslims were technologically, militarily and economically the most advanced in the world – innovating many new technologies and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge.

Christianity was never the reason for the European dark ages, but rather the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of barbarian tribes is the most glaringly obvious reason. Historians are generally agreed that the last great ancient, or classical period philosopher before the fall into the dark ages was the Christian thinker St Augustine!

For most of the last 500 years, technological advancement in the West started, and has mostly occurred, under highly religious non-democratic european monarchies and empires.

The vast majority of pioneering Western scientists were not Atheists, nor did they live under Secularism, but rather they were devout Catholics and even clergy (e.g. Roger Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Copernicus, Descartes, Pascal, Boyle and even the recent George Lemaitre, discoverer of the ‘big bang theory’…) or protestant Church (e.g. Newton) – and much scientific literature and almost ALL institutes of higher education and research were under patronage by the Catholic [and later Anglican] Church!

https://www.nairaland.com/1794405/islam-muslims-side-talk-station/20#26144328

RayMcBlue: Like I always say, religion is harmful, not helpful. The reason is because God is imaginary. Religious delusion is hurting all of us.

lanrexlan: Surah At-Tur 52:35-36 -Were they created by nothing,or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay,but they have no firm Belief.

malvisguy212: unlike you guys who will go at any lent to deny boko haram and others muslim terrorist, even though the bible never teaches us to kill and force people to convert,WE WILL NOT DENY THEM, WE WILL CONDEMN THE ACT AND PRAY THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE FOR EVERYONE.

Our foundation in christianity is jesus christ, and jesus never fought war, just incas someone quote me and say paul is the founder of christianity, paul never fought war or kill. But muhammad fought war and own's slave.

RayMcBlue:

What's your point??

RayMcblue: The reason is because God is imaginary.

lanrexlan: A question to what you said.

RayMcBlue:

I don't need a lesson in history to know that the above is total BS. Modern Civilization having religious background doesn't necessarily make religion a concept to be revered. In fact, Religion deceives, divide, and destroys.

Let's say that you were to create a far-flung news network, and you somehow had the capacity to observe all of the inexplicable tragedy that occurs on Earth each day:

-all of the murders,
-all of the car wrecks
-all of the rapes
-all of the mutilations
-all of the torture
-all the miscarriages and stillbirths
-all of the disease
-all of the starvation
-all of the destruction
-all of the terrorism

lanrexlan: Ignorantee.You won't deny them na because they are simply following the biblical God.He killed for no reason,a man of war.

Swords are edible according to christians!!! Jesus told his disciples to sell their garments and buy swords.The bible says there are many things Jesus did and no space to write them down in the bible(John 21:25),fighting is one those things.

logicboy01: So what?

Your terrorists are more popular than christian terrorists

Kay17: @tb1234
^^
How was it possible for you to say there are no objective moral facts in the absence of an agent -- God?! The idea of objectivity is that the moral facts ought to stand on their own. If not, they lose their nature of objectivity.

lanrexlan: A question to what you said.

tbaba12345:

This is nonsense.

In the first 500 years of Islam, Muslims were technologically, militarily and economically the most advanced in the world – innovating many new technologies and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge.

Christianity was never the reason for the European dark ages, but rather the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of barbarian tribes is the most glaringly obvious reason. Historians are generally agreed that the last great ancient, or classical period philosopher before the fall into the dark ages was the Christian thinker St Augustine!

For most of the last 500 years, technological advancement in the West started, and has mostly occurred, under highly religious non-democratic european monarchies and empires.

The vast majority of pioneering Western scientists were not Atheists, nor did they live under Secularism, but rather they were devout Catholics and even clergy (e.g. Roger Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Copernicus, Descartes, Pascal, Boyle and even the recent George Lemaitre, discoverer of the ‘big bang theory’…) or protestant Church (e.g. Newton) – and much scientific literature and almost ALL institutes of higher education and research were under patronage by the Catholic [and later Anglican] Church!

https://www.nairaland.com/1794405/islam-muslims-side-talk-station/20#26144328

tintingz: Oga, where have you been?

lanrexlan: Ha,my dearest brother tintingz.I have been busy with my academics.How're you doing dear brother and how's kinkingz too ?

Rilwayne001:

Has he gotten kinkingz the little tintingz?

lanrexlan: 'Kinkingz' is brother tintingz twin brother.The brother is a twin and they are very very much identical.

beejaay: what 500yrs are u talking about? The timeframe that witnessed the most brutal wars,slavery,territorial takeover..was it nt during that time that abbasyid dynasty,muawiyah, sa,ahabas wars was on which claims million of lives. Was it nt during that time the islamic caliphate was at war with the christains, with genhis khan and many more tribesmen.was it nt during that timeframe that aisha waged war against ali?

beejaay: Tbaba and his unusual rant. So now it a case of hey we are not the only terrorist,they have amongst them too(bottomline is that u should quit denyin alqaeda, bokoharam,isis and others as nt being muslims.thanks for subtly accepting this fact).

Rilwayne001:

Woww! thats great.

i was not aware of that before oo