Muhammad is an Arab Pagan who belongs to a merchant tribe in Mecca. When he is young, he travels with his family to Syria, where he encounters several heretical Christian sects, and a monk who supposedly recognizes his Prophetic and Spiritual Potential.
One day, he takes a retreat to a cave in the mountains, where he has a vision of an ethereal being screaming at him and nearly crushing him to death. Terrified, he runs to his Wife and Employer, Khadijah, herself a Merchant and much richer than Muhammad. He tells her about the vision and plans to kill himself by jumping from the mountain, but her Cousin, a newly converted Christian, hears the tale, and he and Khadijah convince him that his vision must have been from God.
Unfortunately, Her Cousin dies, and strangely, Muhammad does not receive any revelations during this period.
He once again starts receiving these “Revelations,” and preaches them to the people of Mecca. He wins several followers, but also faces violence and discrimination from the Local Polytheists.
While in Medina, he comes in contact with several Jewish tribes, and just so coincidentally tells his followers to not eat many of the Foods the Jews do. As well, He commands his followers to pray towards Jerusalem, like Jews do.
When his proposed alliance with the Jews fails, however, he instead orders his followers to pray to Mecca, a small town of merchants in the middle of the desert that had no real importance to Judaism or Christianity, which was a center of Arab Paganism.
Muhammad once again returns to Mecca, this time leading an army, and captures the city, destroying the Idols in the Kaaba, yet keeps several of the practices the Pagans had, such as circling the Kaaba, kissing a stone, and walking back and forth between two rocks.
He allows his followers to have four wives, but he is allowed to have more than four, because a Quran verse was miraculously revealed to him that said so.
He marries a six year old, and consummated the marriage at nine, because Allah told him to.
He flies to heaven on a flying horse, and speaks directly to God. Although God tells him that Muslims must pray fifty times a day, Muhammad haggles with God and lowers the amount of prayers down to five, because God can apparently change his mind if Muhammad suggests it.
The Abrahamic God, who was formerly named Yahweh, instead becomes “Allah,” a term that was commonly used for the Pagan Gods of Arabia.
And by the time he dies, he and his armies have conquered all of Arabia through series of Wars and Massacres.
How does any of this make a lick of sense?
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Hey compassionate beings,
Over the past 4 months, I’ve really tried to give Christianity a chance…I had a naive idea of what Christianity was. I looked at arguments, attended church, attended youth group, attended Bible study, read Christian literature. I’ve done everything I could.
Eventually I attended a Calvinist church… Many of the adherents told me that “The people who haven’t heard the gospel, even citizens of North Korea, are predestined for hell”
I can’t believe it… I don’t want to believe it…
If this is true, which I’m unsure on whether it is or not, I will become an anti-theist. I will fight on the side of humanity.
I want to rid the world of religion.