Muslim doctor calls killing homosexuals "compassionate"

You know, if in having a debate about Islam you feel you must divert it to a debate about what shape the earth is, it says a lot about how little confidence you have in your views.

there are legitimate scientific arguments to be made for flat Earth

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there are legitimate scientific arguments to be made for flat Earth

The troll doesn't understand the word colloquial. But the troll doesn't understand science either. This comment of yours was hilarious;

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good you are at chess the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it’s victorious."

I made the mockery of your delusional comment about Islam's contribution to Science and it's History, because as a person who has been studying Abrahamaic theology for half a decade, it's safe to say that the only scientific contributions that the religion of Islam has made to the world is time travel.

In the sense that anyone who takes the religion seriously gets transported back to the 7th century, where ideas of the earth being flat and the urine of camels being medicinal weren't completely out of order.

Oppose fundamentalist Islam, by bringing attention to its problems.

But it's okay to drink your own urine, as some civilised Europeans have started doing nowadays. What sort of argument is this??

I missed that comment when you made it. The way you expressed that is hilarious, hope you don't mind if I use it myself

The difference is one was recommended by a supposed religious figure and "mercy unto mankind" the other wasn't.



You figure it out

Because it has many benefits. That's really not a criticism, it was used as a treatment for many things.

But it's okay to drink your own urine, as some civilised Europeans have started doing nowadays. What sort of argument is this??

I'm really relating this culture of freedom of thought back to the enlightenment of the 17th/18th/19th centuries.

People started to question religion and also to investigate the natural world. Even though religion told them earth was the centre of the universe, and they had other similarly backward explanations for a variety of physical phenomenon, they started to question these explanations.

The beginnings of physics, chemistry, etc was very much related to this opening of free thought. And it has simply expanded exponentially from there.

There are still many people in the Islamic world who believe the earth is flat. To start to evolve and develop, you need to question those religious explanations and this will open you up to beginning to investigate the natural world. That in turn develops your science, which leads to technology.

Another example; look at Singapore. In 1945 it was extremely poor, its people had a standard of living similar to Africa. But since 1945 it has developed and despite having no natural resources, no oil, no gas and very little land, they built up their society. Compare that to countries which are rich in natural resources like Venezuela. While Singapore obviously has progress to make on the political front, they have always been very open in terms of the sciences and they have excellent universities. That is where prosperity begins and it shows that your mindset can matter as much if not more than your natural resources

Are you really defending the drinking of camel urine?

Please show me where the Qur'an says the earth is flat. No one in the Islamic world believes the earth is flat, no scholar will ever say such a stupid thing.

I suppose your mother drinks it as well right?

Please show me where the Qur'an says the earth is flat. No one in the Islamic world believes the earth is flat, no scholar will ever say such a stupid thing.