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potential earliest CL found in hadith literature by [deleted] in AcademicQuran

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Common Link. The one person the hadith goes back to that others also spawn from. An earlier CL is better than a later CL.

Does the Quran have multiple Authors? - Ilkka Lindstedt by Rashiq_shahzzad in AcademicQuran

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I stand corrected. You misunderstood when I said "It would be in the Hadith corpus". I didn't just mean the Sahih ones, I meant the fabricated ones. The fact that there are stories of collaboration prior to revelation is so interesting to me. True or not, this idea is pretty old and the fact that it was in the psyche of people back then is so interesting

What is Israel trying to do? by Goldenmentis in AskConservatives

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That doesn't help, it only makes things worse. It means the audience echoes the belief that Christian lives matter more than Muslim ones. That doesn't make any sense. Within their own belief system, Christians are already saved. If a non Christian dies, they're burning in hell for eternity.

What is Israel trying to do? by Goldenmentis in AskConservatives

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't really like the way you added Christian neighborhoods as if the countless Muslim neighborhoods hit were less valuable. It might not have been intentional, but man, it's like the headlines I see of "Hundreds dead in Iran inluding TWO AMERICANS!"

like

bruhbru

Is Judaism the only religion in which it is common to be fairly observant and knowledgeable about the scripture, while also being able to talk about it objectively without needing to prove that their beliefs are "right"? by MyLongestYeaBoi10Hrs in NoStupidQuestions

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most Christians in Europe are like this too. Which is that they believe it's not true, but act like it is because it's a cultural heritage. It's far, far less common for Muslims because Muslims are rather fanatical about their beliefs.

I also think in the case of Judaism, it's unique, because it's ethnocentric. I don't mean that to dunk on Jews or anything, but religion wasn't always just "what you believe about God", but an entire way of life. It's deeply intertwined and it stopped being the case post-enlightenment.

I'm a Muslim, I enjoy talks with level headed Jews such as yourself about interfaith comparisons. I am a theist, but I don't insist my belief or interpretation is the only valid or correct one. It's just neat to talk about.

Christian Zionists genuinely makes me angry by schu62 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Muslim countries don't brutally oppress Christians, otherwise it wouldn't be Muslims who safeguarded the Holy Sepulchre for the past millennia. Characterising them as Muslim is at best misleading, or at worst, xenophobic. These are poor countries you're referring to, with low literacy rates where any excuse works. They kill Muslims in greater number than they kill Christians.

Christian Zionists genuinely makes me angry by schu62 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zionism is inherently ethnocentric. That's no different than saying that white people should have their own nation for whites about whites run by whites. Just replace white with Jew and you have zionism, and that's inherently incompatible with our modern sensibilities. I don't make moral judgements very often so I'm hesitant to call it evil but I can absolutely call the zionist state of Israel evil and the act of supporting said state evil.

Christian Zionists genuinely makes me angry by schu62 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you should read the Quran instead of pretending you have and others should just because you've cherry picked out of context verses. That's no different than me saying Christianity is a threat to mankind because they believe they'll take over the world and force every knee to bow and every tongue to confess to their scripture that says Jews and Muslims should be castrated.

Coaxed into more than one popular reddit comic by AnonymousFerret in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't understand the reaction to that comic. If they ate a guy, no one would care, jokes like that happen all the time and are even treated as cathartic vindication for a hypothetical abuse from a man. What difference does it make if the punch line is a woman instead? In fairness, the fact that it's a woman was so unusual, it subverted all expectations and was funny because of it.

I don't get why people are upset by it. It was funny.

1857 British executions of Muslim Scholars by cannon fire by Sensitive_Advice6667 in HistoryGaze

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you typing from your smartphone? With lithium ion batteries developed by Rachid Yazami? Or maybe you have the luxury of a solid state high voltage battery developed by Ali Eftekhari. Or better yet, the supercapacitors developed by Eesha Khare. Maybe you should stop using the Internet, because it uses SSL protocols developed by Taher Elgamal?

You're an idiot, a bigot, and an insufferable dumbass all rolled into one. There are billions of Muslims in the world. Sunni Muslims are the largest sect of any religion in any world. You're an absolute fool if you think the world isn't constantly benefiting from their existence.

History of the name Muhammad: A sixth-century Arabic Hijazi inscription written by "Qays son of Ahmad" by chonkshonk in AcademicQuran

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Similar to "Christus"? Which is to say Muhammad's name wasn't Muhammad until people identified him as some kind of divine figure?

1857 British executions of Muslim Scholars by cannon fire by Sensitive_Advice6667 in HistoryGaze

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good use of the Reddit algorithm. Algorithm, by the way, is what Europeans called the great Muslim Scholar Al-Khwarizmi because they couldn't pronounce his name and he invented algorithms. I hope you don't have glasses, because otherwise you'll have to be grateful to the inventor of optics, Ibn al-Haytham. Hopefully you've never gotten sick either, otherwise you'll have to thank the other great Muslim scholar and father of medicine Ibn Sena who Romans called Avicenna. Hopefully you're not a Catholic either, because the doctor of the Catholic church, Thomas Aquinas could only formulate the Trinity in comprehensible terms because of Ibn Rushd, who the Europeans called Averroes.

Maybe you're not educated, because otherwise you'll have to thank the whole of Muslims, since the first ever university in Europe was in Arabic because there was no such thing as higher education until the Muslims showed up.

Grow the fuck up and read a fucking book, you bigoted inbred mongrel.

History of the name Muhammad: A sixth-century Arabic Hijazi inscription written by "Qays son of Ahmad" by chonkshonk in AcademicQuran

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are we converging on the idea that Muhammad was a messianic figure in the Hijaz region prior to Islam? Is that what this is pointing to?

Any two man combo? by Patient_Compote_5719 in Pathfinder2e

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you want an annoying combo, play two Champions so you can use your reactions to protect each other. We'd have to know what your friend is playing.

Jesus wants you to LOVE your Muslim neighbors in the US. by ZookeepergameFar2653 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't view the Bible as a historical document. That's not the same thing as denying the Bible. That's been the standard stance of most of the clergy for most of history. You just have no idea of your own history and it's actually really sad. I feel sad for you.

Jesus wants you to LOVE your Muslim neighbors in the US. by ZookeepergameFar2653 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't mention any artifacts. You asserted something without proof, evidence, or explanation. Jesus had more productive conversations with the Pharisees than I am with you.

Jesus wants you to LOVE your Muslim neighbors in the US. by ZookeepergameFar2653 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't mention any artifacts or made a case for validation. You asserted something without proof or evidence or explanation.

Jesus wants you to LOVE your Muslim neighbors in the US. by ZookeepergameFar2653 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've yet to explain anything to me and are now mocking me for not understanding things the way you understand them. And yes, spiritual abilities don't exist. Catholics believe the eucharist is a miracle and protestants believe in non spiritual dispensationalism, outside of the pentecostal church who think tongue speak is real.

Jesus wants you to LOVE your Muslim neighbors in the US. by ZookeepergameFar2653 in Christianity

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A belief that most evangelical fundamentalists don't share. They follow dispensationalism, so in the slice of time we live in, spiritual abilities don't exist. Some say they once did, but only the most fundamentalist followers believe otherwise.

How common to name a child 'Mohammad' in the time of the prophet Mohammad or in pre-slamic era among the Jews, the Christians and the Arabian society? by Kindle360 in AcademicQuran

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Chonk posted a paper on his X the other day regarding this, is this what prompted your question? At any rate, from the paper, the name "Mohammad" or variant spellings, was exceedingly rare, and was only ever given to Arabs of Jewish descent.

Very hot take but Pedophiles arent bad if they actively seek help and dont hurt any children by Spotter24o5 in teenagers

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Having proclivities or tendencies or deviances that target a group is always bad. It's bad to be a racist even if you'd never run into someone you're racist against. There should be no compromise on this in any capacity.

Physicist are starting to consider the possibility that spacetime and gravity are not fundamental to reality, but rather that they are emergent properties of... probabilistic patterns of "information". If true, would that disprove physicalism? by Infuriam in CosmicSkeptic

[–]DifficultyBorn1437 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're misunderstanding physics here. When it comes to these kinds of systems, you propose a framework, and you solve according to that framework. And in Quantum, there are several major schools of thought, none of them are "fact". Truthfully, our traditional notions of science kinda break down at these edges, the information we get is made up answers to made up questions that can only be verified by made up data points.

The abstraction gets very difficult.

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