THE RADICALISED RABBI is a blog on Judaism and its very useful ideas and the blogger a Secular Koranist and a revolutionary. You don't have to be Jewish to find Jewish ideas very useful in tidying up your thinking and turbo-charging your powers of reasoning to the extent that you can even predict most events and disasters. The West is heading for disaster with its insane policy of Transnational Progressivism, turning our global village into Sodom and Gomorrah attracting the same punishment.
1:00 Christians are like the Roman Empire: Romans were people who hated kings who became people who worshiped their deceased emperors; Christianity was an organised religion but is now more like the leaderless hippie movement.
3:00 I am like Rosa Parks.
4:00 Christianity used to be an organised religion.
5:00 Should ex-Christians who still want to worship God choose Islam or the Noahide laws? American Christians should choose the religion of the holy book that gave them their First Amendment.
AI Overview
In his famous 1734 English translation of the Quran, the British Orientalist George Sale translated the opening of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:256) as:
While modern English translations typically render Lā ikrāha fī ad-dīn as "There is no compulsion in religion," Sale chose the word "violence" to convey the prohibition of forcing a faith upon someone. [1, 2]
Sale's Explanatory Notes & Commentary
In his extensive accompanying footnotes and his Preliminary Discourse, Sale elaborated on the context of tolerance and religious freedom regarding this verse:
No Forced Conversions: Sale noted that this verse explicitly establishes that people should not be violently forced to accept Islam. He regularly highlighted in his commentary that the Prophet Muhammad protected the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) in exchange for a tribute (jizyah) rather than forcing them to convert. [1, 2, 3]
Safe Passage and Choice: Commenting on the broader Quranic application of this principle (such as treating captives or enemy emissaries), Sale explained that if individuals chose not to accept the religion, Muslims were obligated to grant them safe conduct back to their place of origin where they were secure. [1]
Rejection of the "Sword" Myth: Sale famously challenged prevailing 18th-century Western biases regarding the spread of Islam. He noted that claiming Islam spread purely by the sword was an oversimplification and an allegation, pointing out that in many countries, the sword was never used, and the religion spread peacefully. [1, 2]
6:00 The Trinity can only be "defended" with violence.
7:00 A Christian Amendment would be supremely unAmerican.
8:00 Orthodox Christianity is popular with anti-Zionist White Nationalists because the Orthodox Church has never recognised Israel.
9:00 Neoconservatism = American imperialism
10:00 A trash bag of rotting elephant meat
11:00 Do heretical Christians afraid of offending each other deserve Christian fellowship?
12:00 Three kinds of Trinitarian Christian: Cultural Christians who deny the Trinity and perhaps God; Believing Christians who worship the Trinity; Christian Nationalists who want their country back
14:00 A gang of pirates, bandits, gangsters, idolaters, blasphemers, lunatics, liars and sex offenders
15:00 Atheists and nihilists
16:00 Islamophobic bachelors
17:00 Bear Hat Man whom I thought was a Muslim called Danjuma