Muhammad was a tantric who invented Islam as a solution to the upheaval
that the war lords in the area were causing. I know an Indian woman who
was born into a Muslim family but when asked about Islam couldn't tell
you anything about it because they didn't actually practice it. She was
more into yoga and Indian philosophy.
On 12/22/2013 10:45 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Quran is a dispiriting book. It's chock-full of passages in which
Mohammed scoffs at those who didn't pay heed to Allah's past warnings,
like the destruction of Sodom. When well-meaning people suggest to him
that those stories might just be, well, stories - legends, myths -
they are roundly condemned and promised an eternity of hell-fire. The
amount of superstitious claptrap is worrying enough; but the sheer
number of passages condemning all unbelievers to eternal punishments -
and the cruel self-satisfaction with which those curses are pronounced
- is chilling.
(I've read the book twice in two different translations.)
Stick to the Gospels or theGita. Or Sufi poetry - a true poet isn't a
religious fanatic.
