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Originally Posted by mordwyr
There is an appalling amount of historical ignorance being spewed all over this thread regarding the spread of Islam through violence since its inception.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
It's fun to point to the Inquisition but if it slowed down the spread of Islam maybe that too has to be reconsidered.
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Take a few minutes to read this interview with maybe the most noted authority on the history of religion.
Karen Armstrong: "There is nothing in the Islam that is more violent than Christianity" - Nieuwwij
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong
I'd also highly recommend her book "The Case for God".
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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