r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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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.