On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 4:18 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
*> Religion didn't do a damn thing really to improve the human condition, > say in Europe. It did seem to as a practice stop formal human sacrifice,* And why did religion start in the first place? Because of religion. > a*nd eventually eliminate slavery and replaced it with serfdom,* > About the only religious sect that can claim credit for that are the Quakers, for nearly all the others slavery was just fine, it was a widespread practice for thousands of years but neither the old nor the New Testament says a word against it, and the Quran doesn't condemn slavery either although like the Bible it does condemn one hell of a lot of other things, and most of them were completely harmless. > > *who is the rightful heir to Muhammad? * Who gives a shit, the man has been dead for 1500 years. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> skb > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2hH3Gx9E4GGy%2B6coGxLZmPnr6ig3BkoqDZ_8fmiHHA6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
