On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> wrote: >> to keep my reply short (concentrate on Islam) Why should I study scripts >> the followers of which behead, flog, stone, dismember live humans and claim >> full credit for such cruelty in the afterlife? >> > > > briefly (concentrate on science) >
If you concentrate on science there won't be much to say about Muslims. Although Muslims make up 23% of the world's population since 1900 only one Muslim has won a Nobel Prize in science, Ahmed Zewail won for chemistry in 1999. Abdus Salam won for physics in 1979 and his tombstone said "First Muslim Nobel Laureate", but the Pakistani government officially decreed that Abdus Salam was NOT a Muslim and ordered that the word "Muslim" be erased from his tombstone. > > The same reason why people should study the sciences the followers > (scientists / engineers / technicians / governments / military / > businesses) of which experiment with, damage, kill live humans and animals, > destroy ecosystems, etc. and claim full credit for being leaders of human > civilisation! > Science can explain how a H-bomb works but says nothing about how or if they should be used, that is a function of the empathy of the bomb builder and his fear of retaliation. Islam can not say one intelligent word about how a H-bomb works or even how a conventional chemical explosive works, but that doesn't prevent it from telling people exactly how they should be used. And Islam says you shouldn't have empathy for those who frequent a different religious franchise than your do, and it also says that you shouldn't fear death because if you do what Islam tells you to do then when you die you'll live forever in Santa Claus's workshop in the sky. So we have a combination of cruelty and stupidity, and that is a dangerous combination. . > A person's concern for their own future should be reason enough to > urgently explore the scriptures! > I don't see how reading the fairy tales of illiterate bronze age tribes will help, not even if your mommy and daddy said it will. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
