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[Q8tiScorpion]

@Q8tiScorpion and this is the order of our religion .. that everything we do .. is being recorded .. there is no escape from the judgment of allah.

[Q8tiScorpion]

@inconsp1cuous1515 so the fear and punishment you were talking about is ..

for example .. if i steal something .. and nobody saw me do it .. and they have no evidence whatsoever that i did it ... how would justice be applied here ?.

because we believe that allah is all seeing .. all knowing .. we will be punished in the day of judgment for what we did .. this creates fear in the mind of the criminal don't you think ?

that's exactly what we mean by fear and punishment , no more no less.

[Q8tiScorpion]

@inconsp1cuous1515 you are right .. no one really agrees that politics and religion mix well together, well in today's world anyway.

islam created for us the inner self law .. for every bad thing we do .. it's considered a sin.

and for every good thing we do .. it's considered as a good deed by allah.

we believe that they all pile up and counted in the day of judgment by allah ..

[inconsp1cuous1515]

@Q8tiScorpion ::every one of those scrolls are gone now. After that, it took humanity almost 2,000 years to relearn a fraction of lost knowledge from that Library; for example, the fact that the Earth is not the center of the universe. I still wonder what humans could achieve if that library still stood. In the past few decades, people in power through the Middle East (and the U.S.) have shown the world that religion and politics don't mix well together.

[inconsp1cuous1515]

@Q8tiScorpion Many many of the great inventions of today were founded by Muslims. A lot of people in my country don't seem to accredit that. If you watch a video of read stories about the Library of Alexandria, you'll see that the Middle East is also accredited for having the world's first university. It had over 500,000 irreplaceable books and scrolls, and survived about 600 years. It survived the fall of Rome but not the spread of Islam and Christianity when it got burned to the ground::

[inconsp1cuous1515]

@Q8tiScorpion I used to be Christian, and the Bible says the same thing. I stepped out of that area and its absolute morals when I was 16. It makes me proud that I was bold enough to do that on my own and instead wanting a sense of morality which is thought out, discussed, reasoned, experienced etc. In your example I definitely wouldn't be proud of that for sure, but to me it's her choice and she'd learn from it. Men looking is okay, but I'd step in if it were sexual abuse and harassment lol.

[Q8tiScorpion]

@inconsp1cuous1515 let me give you a list of muslim inventors and philosophers.

ibn al haitham : the inventor of the pin-hole camera.

jabir ibn hayyan: if you know chemistry, this would sound familiar, he discovered liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration... he also discovered sulphuric and nitric acid which is used today all the time.

i could go on .. if you want.

quilting is also our discovery.

so what do you think ?.

[Q8tiScorpion]

@inconsp1cuous1515 if you had read the quran , you would know that one of the many things that allah ordered us to do .. is to pursue knowledge.

and the idea of fear and punishment .. well ... how would an atheist feel if his sister is working as a stripper or dresses really short when going out and all the men are staring at her .. that means he doesn't have pride.

where would you gain your pride ? .. who teaches you the principles of pride ?

for us .. it's the qur'an.

what about you ?.

[inconsp1cuous1515]

@Q8tiScorpion My hatred isn't as warranted as my disappointment for how religion snares mankind from moving forward. Christianity and Islam both neglect human potential by sharing no interest in helping humanity grow, and ground one another with fear & punishment. The very attitude put humans in the dark ages at the cost of irreplaceable knowledge. It's 2012 today, and I'd rather see humans put their enthusiasm into things like stem cell research and space tech, rather than invisible sky people.

[Q8tiScorpion]

@inconsp1cuous1515 ok then .. can you tell me a good reason why you hate islam ? ..

because we certainly don't agree on lots of stuff , THAT, i understand.

but what i don't understand .. is why all the hate ? .. not that i care or it would affect me but i still haven't really understood that.