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Christianity and Islam both make claims about the past that can be tested against the records of history. When it comes to the person of Jesus, their truth claims are contradictory, and both cannot be true.

It is no coincidence that just as they reversed many of Muhammad’s social reforms aimed at empowering women, the Muslim scriptural and legal scholars of the following centuries rejected the notion that Jews and Christians were part of the Ummah, and instead designated both groups as unbelievers. These scholars reinterpreted the Revelation to declar

So in the twenty-first century religions don’t bring rain, they don’t cure illnesses, they don’t build bombs—but they do get to determine who are “us” and who are “them,” whom we should cure and whom we should bomb.

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Comme le bouddhisme, comme plus tard le christianisme puis l’islam, le zoroastrisme conquiert les masses grâce à la conversion des rois, laquelle s’opère ici volontiers à travers les guerres, Ahura Mazda étant un Dieu guerrier, au nom du Bien.