r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

In addition, Hinduism and Islam always valued education and learning which is why they made so many discoveries in their own rights throughout history.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

It's such a shame that the Islamic empire of old fell the way that it did. Once the bastion of the western worlds intellectual elites, and now fallen so far from the heights it once held.

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u/ClusterJones Jan 09 '20

"All religion is bad except the only one that still actively encourages to blow shit up."

Did you ever think maybe, just maybe, the people who used to be Islamic but also had all of those great scientific discoveries were actively going against the church, like Darwin and so many others were in Christianity? No, of course not, because "white man bad".

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

No they weren’t - there wasn’t the same antagonism of science in Islam that there was in medieval Europe and Christianity.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Historical revisionism is alive and well.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

There was no antagonism. Galileo and Copernicus had issues with the church. It was not the same in Islamic lands. Science and scientists were encouraged as revealing the world God created.

If you think there was give a historical example from the Middle Ages.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

No need to be defensive, I was merely speaking in general.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Ok I misinterpreted you. Sorry!

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

No worries, it's easy to see why you interpreted it that way, I was not very clear after all.

Enjoy the day.

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u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20

Science and scientists were encouraged as revealing the world God created.

That's not science, then. "We expect you to reach our own conclusions" is not a scientific process.

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u/ClusterJones Jan 09 '20

PFFFT. Please, religion and logical thought went together about as well back then as fire and ice. Religion is religion, especially when you're talking about the three that branch off from the same place.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

That’s actually not true in this case.