Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
As a political marriage, and as we know that marriages are not finalized until consummated. After consummation, he didn't have sex with her until her teens. Pedophile means you like sex with prepubescent kids. Him having sex with one prepubescent for the reasons of consummation of a political marriage is not the same thing.
As a political marriage, and as we know that marriages are not finalized until consummated. After consummation, he didn't have sex with her until her teens. Pedophile means you like sex with prepubescent kids. Him having sex with one prepubescent for the reasons of consummation of a political marriage is not the same thing.
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
And if this actually did happen was it upheld?
a marital rapist,
And if this actually did happen was it upheld?
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Was this really anything different from others at the time? As Elok said, look at the other leaders around.
a murderer of his critics (remember that poet he murdered? Or that woman who was killed in her sleep),
Was this really anything different from others at the time? As Elok said, look at the other leaders around.
As for that comment about other people who lived in a similar time - consider the example of Adi Shankara, who finished of Buddhism in India - without the help of a state or of a king. His preferred method of spreading the faith was debating. His debates were always risky, because the condition was that the loser would become the disciple of the victor. And he won every single debate he took on, and won back the royal patronage Hinduism had lost. All without any military nonsense.
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Iconoclasm is not exactly considered a bad thing in someone trying to create a new religion. It'd probably be par for the course, I'd imagine.
an iconoclast of the worst sort (the destruction of the idols at Mecca, the destruction of Somnath, which was believed to hold one idol which "escaped" from Mecca, which set the pattern for the destruction of all the major temples of North India),

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Those who sold out his army and were killed after a judicial ruling?
and a person who committed genocide against the Arabian Jews?
Those who sold out his army and were killed after a judicial ruling?
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
So do you consider everyone who was not born during modern morals to be such 'twisted men' who cannot be followed?
Do you really think that such a twisted man can serve as an ideal for all of us today?
So do you consider everyone who was not born during modern morals to be such 'twisted men' who cannot be followed?
But there is a man who does live up to any modern criticism which can be levelled against him, and that is the Buddha. He is a person who can be used as an ideal in his entirety even today.
Can you say the same about Mohammed?
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