Let's take a look at Mohammed in a real light, and Muslims, put your suicide vests down, I'm just going to fill in some blanks, ok? When the prophet uttered his Suras about unbelievers he lived in a world filled with pagans worshipping a whole slew of gods. The Kabba was filled to the brim with little statues of these entities, all on display for a price which went to the pockets of the rulers if Mecca who had been calling the shots for centuries. Mohammed was a fairly adept camel driver, and that's what he really was, who could drive a caravan across the desert, sell his goods, and make it back to his investors without getting robbed. Now that was a pretty good trick back in those days. The desert was over flowing with drunken, Hedonistic vagabonds who routinely killed their first born if that first born was a girl.
Now old Mohammed claimed he saw an angel. Well, Joseph Smith saw an angel, the kids at Fatima saw an angel, EVERYBODY saw an angel. Most likely due to his travels and interactions with various cultures, he went to that cave and just made it all up. I don't believe in Santa Clause either, folks. I'm a realist to the Nth degree. Get used to it. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Mohammed came home one night and told his wife he saw an angel. Now bear in mind, she was a crazy as he was so she bought the story. He boiled all the Gods roaming around the Arabian Desert down to one and that was his big "message." Now, if Mohammed had confined his ideas to fireside chats in the tent we would have never had a problem, but, as luck would have it he found his way to the Kabba and thought it might be cute to try to get those pawn brokers over there to give up all their money. Well, that didn't work out for him and the sheiks chased his butt out of town.
Mohammed had one more talent besides being a snake oil salesman, and that was the gift of gab. Joseph Smith had that, too, in fact just about every major political movement can trace its origins back to some guy that could talk the spots off a leopard and Mohammed was no different. By the time he got to Medina he was just a tad but irritated. He began to go on and on about "unbelievers." Now I don't care what you think, Mohammed was talking about those guys back in Mecca. THEY were the problem, and in his original context he was RIGHT! They WERE unbelievers, and they didn't CARE so long as the cash register kept ringing. They were a little like Republicans we have today. Again, if the one god idea had stopped right there Mohammed would have been no different from the Jews or the off shoot Christians of his day. Matter of fact, that's where he arrived at his idea, NOT some angel back in a cave.
If the Jews and Christians had thrown in with him "Islam" would be very different today but we had one little problem. That old opiate of the masses, RELIGION! My invisible guy can whip your invisible guy. Mohammed was a very focused guy. If you weren't part of the solution, then you are just part of the problem, and by the time he got back to Mecca Mohammed had the playing field fairly well laid out. There was THEM and then there was HIM! By this time he had more than enough supporters to help inflict his ideas upon the populace. It was about this time the Qu'ran took a left turn and "Allah" became a whole other critter from that simple one god concept Mohammed was talking about to his wife years before. Then he died.
Like the Master said, "Know them by their fruits," and the Muslims have been growing dates for over fourteen hundred years. Ask yourself, if Allah and "God" are one and the same, then why do the Muslims insist on such radical separatism? If a Rabbi praying to YHWH is the same as a Muslim prostrating before Allah what's the problem? Well, the two entities are not the same, THAT'S the issue. Now without venturing off into a deep theological debate here, I'm going to tell you what the problem is. If you are a theist, and you posit some creative force that made the universe it only goes to follow that the God you are talking about simply has to be one. Even if you are a pagan, believing in a host of divinities there simply must be a big guy that made all the others. So, if the god of Islam is fundamentally different from the god of virtually everybody else, then the Muslim god must be a man made creation.
You see, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Remember that Kabba? Well, Mohammed didn't tear it down. He just threw all the statues away and set up his OWN bank. Oh yeah, see where this is going? After his death his followers fined tuned "Allah" until he fit quite nicely inside there with hundreds of thousands of paying adherents marching counter clockwise around it. You Muslims may swat them bees now. Remind me to check under my car before I go to the store today.
I don't think Allah is Satan per sae, but I would venture to guess Satan is quite pleased the the political creation currently wrecking havoc all over the world. A politically created "god" for a created political system. Nothing more, nothing less. Now, I have no issue with Chap, or anyone else ascribing evil to this system, but like I've said before 666 simply means man, man, man, and that's what you have here. Just a bunch of guys sitting around making up stuff with a goal of stealing a LOT of money. Should the world get together and eject Islam? You know it! Muslims have set themselves apart from the rest of us, and I would say that they need at least a major overhaul of policy. If they're the religion of "peace" then BE peaceful!
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