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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
That god speaks to people like mohammed?
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God didn't speak to mohammed. It's documented what was happening. mohammed was suffering from seizures and hallucinations. He saw a bright light, eventually convinced himself (and others obviously) that it was the angel Gabriel delivering Gods message for God. But that realization didn't come right away because even Gabriel couldn't speak in plain sentences it seems when delivering "the word of God". The vast majority of those "revelations" after that point basically gave him the go ahead to raid, rape, rob, pillage, take slaves and enrich his inner circle and fuck prepubescent children.
Because obviously, the all powerful, omnipresent entity responsible for creating every single particle in the universe(s), can't talk to people directly and for some reason has to rely on a bunch of uneducated donkey fucking goat herders in far corners of the earth to deliver messages to the entire population of the planet. Maybe "God" is just shy?
And of course, "God" being all merciful, all loving and all forgiving gives self proclaimed messengers (according to them, of course) the green light to spread his message of love and peace and mercy and forgiveness by hacking and killing and burning and raping and pillaging. Cause,.. you know, there's no glaring logical contradiction there. After all, "Worship me or suffer an eternity of painful deaths" just screams selfless compassion and love and mercy and forgiveness.
When they were inventing Abrahamic religions, they couldn't imagine a world much larger than their own, much less other continents and didn't know there were countless millions that would never "saved" from "eternal damnation" by never hearing the message of God..... oops. Maybe that was Gods fuckup? God might have needed a geography lesson and didn't have the proper demographic data in front of him to refer to.