On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 4:18 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2hH3Gx9E4GGy%2B6coGxLZmPnr6ig3BkoqDZ_8fmiHHA6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
