Saladin! Huzzah!
Seriously, Saladin was perhaps one of the greatest men of the Crusades. When he died, he had given over 3/4 of his treasury to the poor (and the man was EXTREMELY rich; so rich I can't even describe it). There wasn't even enough to pay for a vault for his body. If that's not selflessness, then I don't know what is.
Islam itself isn't the problem. In fact, it's actually a very beautiful religion.
PEOPLE are the problem. Don't blame the creation, blame the creator. I personally think the entire globe would be better off if religion was destroyed entirely because I think it causes more problems that it solves AND I also believe that the chance of us being selected in the grand scheme of the universe to uphold the message of God is just ridiculous. The universe is infinite, and WE for some mysterious reason are chosen to spread the "good news"? Bah. It's all a bunch of crock. The only reason why we think we're special is because we humans think that we're the only things in existence in this endless gulf of space and that's because we've never known anything other than ourselves. We don't think things out...
PEOPLE are dumb, stupid, panicky, and we should know it. 1,500 years ago everybody
KNEW that the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago everybody
KNEW that the Earth was flat. 300 years ago everybody
KNEW that our solar system was the only thing that existed... imagine what we'll know tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by Skybird/Neal Stevens
Three actively running Islam-threads may be a test to mod's patience. Let's keep it together.
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Indeed...