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All things made by man fall short of perfection & have associated problems.  Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism have associated problems.  The Biblical faiths are best human effort ever made, but still have problems due to falling short of perfection.

Thus, where all faiths have various problems, why is Islam a problem in a class of its own?

Muhammad is the only founder of a major religion, who, by his own testimony & by the testimony of other witnesses present at the time, kept hearing voices in his head & heard them on a regular basis.

Why is Islam a problem in a class off its own, repetitive delusional psychosis is not a good start.

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It does not take much reading of the Quran to notice its erratic & arbitrary pronouncements are decidedly schizoid.  A little more reading reveals other issues.  Muhammad takes things most people would agree to be right, & pronounces them to be right.  He then takes things most people hold as wrong, & pronounces them to be ~right in Allah~ as well.  He takes a mixed bag of things right & wrong, & pronounces all of them to be wrong.  Rather like separating right from wrong by raffle instead of any coherent system of moral criteria.

Great I have a founder of a major religion who is amoral; morally color blind or clinically unable to tell the difference between right & wrong; & thus has no capacity of moral decision.

The condition ~amoral~ rarely stands alone; it is usually a secondary symptom of a more deep rooted clinical condition, which would seem to confirm the delusional psychosis.

If you do not know you are doing wrong, you do wrong without conscience.  If you do not know what is right, you disdain what is right or wage war on right, also without conscience.  Conscience is the foundation of law, no conscience = no law.

Islam represses & misdirects its own people in a way which is wrong in God; it attempts to dominate, subjugate, injure, tax, exploit & enslave its neighbors, also wrong in God.  Not knowing this is wrong = no conscience, no remorse, no redemption, no reform, no law.

Judaism & Christianity hold Islam an outlaw faith in the traditional sense of outside the law, & thus external to the considerations & protections of the law.

For its part Islam holds itself a law wholly unto itself, & will answer to no law other than its own.  Thus, while differently derived, outside the law is mutually agreed by all parties.

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There is also the issue of Muhammad being unscrupulous to the extent he was able to exercise control of himself.  The completely mad have little credibility, not least because they are obviously crazy.  Muhammad was able to obtain some credibility, therefore he must have presented as being at least partly in control of himself.

The voices heard by the insane often instruct them to harm themselves, as well as harming others.  Muhammad’s voices rarely harmed him, rather his voices turned out to save his precious little self whenever he was in a tight corner.  His voices invariably told him, ~all the power, all the authority, all the money & all the women belong to Muhammad~  A very convenient God to have & don’t we all wish we had one.  After one particularly outrageous dealing, one of his wives was heard to say… ~Oh Prophet, how quickly your God rushes to fulfill your every desire~

Muslims attest ~Islam is innocent~ the west holds the clinically deficient cannot be tried or called to account at law. If Muhammad ever went to a competency hearing, it would be the most marginal call in history.  He definitely suffered from clinical conditions, but has enough self control to exploit his conditions to his optimal advantage.  Is he a criminal fit to stand trial for his crimes, or is he incompetent & a danger to be dealt with under instruments of public safety?  Either way, he is a bigger problem than the normal range of problems.

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Muhammad was a creative genius; whilst I find him highly disagreeable as an engineer in religions I admire the technical genius by which Islam is constructed.

Common wisdom holds madness & genius as closely related; one school of modern genetics attribute psychosis & ~creative~ genius to a common carrier gene, again affirming the delusional psychosis.  As science keeps changing its findings with new discovery & I have no qualifications in genetics; I prefer to depend on the common wisdom madness & genius are closely related.

Creative genius breaks into two words, the last word ~genius~ is the ability to take a complex body of parts, & assemble them into a coherent working whole.

The first word, ~creative~ encompasses a raft of undesirable elements… ~imaginings, inventions, fabrications & outright lies~  I note that as a clinical psychotic Muhammad’s imagining’s & inventions would be more wide ranging, more persistent & more compelling than most.  His distrust of all honest men & rejection of all ~man-made authority~ attests there were probably elements off paranoia in his makeup as well.

Great I have a creative genius who is capable of taking his imaginings, inventions, paranoia & rejection of the law, & turning it into a credible working system.

This is distinct from the honest genius of say an Einstein or a Newton, who took sound data & presented it as a coherent working theory.  Distinct also from the honest genius of Moses & the Apostle Paul, who took elements which are good & right to package them as a coherent system.

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On historical verification.

Muhammad is a fully verified figure of history; every detail of his life is recorded & maintained, both by his followers & by his opponents, making him perhaps one of the most comprehensively documented persons in history.

The coming of Christ is attested only in the Gospels, there is no independent historical verification.  The Gospels are not an assembly of evidences but an assembly of testimonies, given by people who had a meaningful & transformative experience within the corporate body we call THE Christ.

Islam holds the Christ of the Gospels a man made fabrication & a false record.  (God is God, he does not have a wife, he does not have a Son; these are just some of the things Muslims seem to obsess about)

For myself I believe all religions are man-made, thus I ask which is the more credible base on which society should stand?  Given the sworn testimonies off a group of people who are basically decent, sane & able to exercise capacity of moral decision; or the proven histocracy of a clinically defective misfit, I give preferment to the testimonies of the disciples.

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Einstein famously said, ~a problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness that created the problem in the first place~   The Bible holds our normal level of consciousness as original sin because it is the creator of our problems.  Most religions seek to obtain solutions from a level of consciousness ~other than~ normal.

The Bible seeks solutions from the Most High, a level of consciousness held as being above normal.  Yet apart from gestalt, moments of particular lucidity or inspiration there is no proof this higher consciousness actually exists.

Islam attests the otherness of Islam, & holds Muhammad’s ~otherness~ or other world as evidentially proven.  I agree insanity is a level of consciousness ~other than~ normal, but I disdain spiritual direction from such a dubious source as Muhammad.  Instead I vest my faith in guidance from the Most High, even though the latter is not evidentially proven.

I note the Most High does seem to work so long as we work on it.  This was the experience of Abraham, of Moses, off David, of the Apostles; the experience of Einstein, Newton & many others as well.   The Most High working through those of us who ourselves work on it is also the experience of myself.

The First & most important commandment is… ~seek to know God in the Highest, & strive to serve him with all thy might~ So long as we do the work, guidance from the Most High does work & is reliably available.  Why would I disdain the ~other world~ of God in the Highest, to take up the other world formed by the clinically defective Muhammad?

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On the matter off sworn oaths.

No oath can be considered separate from the person who is giving it.  Thus, no matter what the quality of the sworn oath, the person giving it must always be assessed for credibility & integrity.

The Bible is a book of principles, the Quran a book of expediencies.  Principle & expediency are two different coping strategies for the challenges of life, yet each leads to different outcomes.

Allow me to digress for a moment to the word ~Holy~ which means best of kind.  Pagans will find the strongest & most dominant tree in the forest, then name it a God as it is ~best of kind~   The Jews sacrificed only firstlings off the flock, altar bread was prepared to a high standard, that which was Holy had to be best of kind.

There are many books of principle which vary in quality; yet due to the no compromises commitment of its Patriarchs, Prophets  & Apostles, the Bible gained an advantage & is held Holy as it is best of kind.

There are many books of expediency, these too vary in quality; most were written by normal men who at some point were restrained by conscience.   Due to his mental health problems Muhammad was freed from the constraints of conscience so gaining an advantage in the business of expediency.  The Quran is held Holy by Muslims, as it is best of kind.

An oath sworn on the Bible is sworn on the life & works of men of the highest integrity & worth; thus, it is a first quality oath.

A civil oath is based on social norms or aggregates somewhat lower than the highest, but at least it is not intentionally delinquent.

People must decide for themselves what weight to place on an oath sworn on a book of expediencies written by a defective person off little credibility.  I hold it as off negative worth.  Muslims are appalled by people wearing shoes into a Mosque.  This Christian would happily wear shoes there; I do not regard expediency as holy. As a Christian I am charged ~I am my brothers keeper~  If a Muslim wanted to swear an oath to me on the Quran, I am obliged to say I prefer you not defile yourself or degrade God by swearing an unclean oath.  How about we pass on the oath & just proceed to your credibility as a witness & your integrity as a person.

A further problem exists in Muhammad’s endorsement of lies ~if they were necessary to protect Islam~  Something he not only approved off in advising Muslims; but was also known to practice himself. It is the duty of every Muslim to emulate every word & deed of Muhammad. Here we have to consider Islamic values.  If I lied in court, or to my family & neighbors it would be considered wrong.  Yet if I lied to my dog, I doubt it would count.  To Islam, Infidels; anyone who does not believe Muhammad to be a true Prophet of God is lower than a dog; lying to Infidels does not count.  Muslims disagree on whether the example of Muhammad means Muslims are allowed to lie in order to protect Islam, or have a duty to lie to protect Islam.  While Islamic jurisprudence stands on a split decision between allow & duty, I am not impressed either way.

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It is my clear understanding that Christianity is a reality based religion.  One which struggles, consistently but not always successfully to improve the real world; to raise man up to salvation & fulfillment in the highest we can aspire to & reasonably presume to be sound.

By comparison Islam is a romance & a fantasy.  Due to the creative genius of Muhammad it may be the most complete, certainly the most seductive, ~virtual reality~ ever built.

Muslims are absorbed into this fantasy & give up relating to the real world in order to reside within this romance.  Muslims say they only want to live the Islamic fantasy in peace, yet reality can have no peace with a delinquent fantasy that not only ignores reality, but frequently visits harm, injury, misdirection & repression upon it.

While we all desire peace & prefer it, Islam proffers terms with which no peace can ever be made.  The salvation of man, eternal life & our immortal souls are all dependent on our rejection of the Islamic fantasy.  More positively, they depend on our upholding the precepts of the God of the Bible, as a living faith which adapts to changing conditions as man progresses.

On the integrity of the Bible & its writers, also the limits of best effort made in good faith; please refer to the first four articles under Christianity tab on the CommuniChristi Webb-site. ~The Bible as History~ 7 pages, ~Trinity at its simplest~ 4 pages, ~God, shaping our world~ 6 pages, ~~Creation & Evolution~ 4 pages.  21 pages in total, not too onerous a read to understand why the Bible is the foundation on which western society stands.

My work does not exist as an endless moan or put down of other faiths.  I feel free to criticize others where I feel it appropriate, I also feel free to point out Christian delinquency when I believe that arises.  Yet negatives will not fix the problems of a world of seven billion people who need working solutions.

It is the Christian world who sponsored the recent great western material transmutation which has changed the world in a manner unrecognizable to people who lived a mere few centuries ago,  This new world has bought many new benefits, but also many new problems.  As the Christian world was its sponsor, we have a duty of stewardship towards it to ensure its good management in our God.  I am not here to promote Biblical literalism, which was merely a form of expression off its period, but to promote the underlying soundness of the Biblical precepts. To that end my work concentrates on the constructive positives of an ongoing system of Christian management.  Not for nothing, nor just for grandstanding, does the Christian faith hold itself Gods agent on this earth, & the Biblical Trinity as the applied mechanics of our God working in the world.

5 pages, close; January 2011.

Ken Maynard.   email…. communichristi@gmail.com Webb… http://www.communichristi.org.nz

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Notes… the above is an updated item on Islam; replacing earlier documents previously posted.

1…. Confucius, Buddha, Hindu sages, Biblical Prophets & Judges in a modern judiciary have a coherent moral theology.  They are differently constructed as they serve different ends, but they are systemic & consistent. I may disagree with them on some points but at least they have a moral theology.  Muhammad alone appears to choose right & wrong by raffle.  Muslims hold Allah is omnipotent; he does as he wills, his contradictions attest he is truly God; & his contrariness necessary so people fear & obey him. I hold it proves him a false God.

The universe & nature run by a consistent set of laws, humanity needs consistency & constancy in order to function.  As they are different operations to manage, you can sometimes be right in physics & wrong in humanities, or vice versa; but in being wrong in both at the same time Islam needs to have another look at its theology. Yet Muslims hold Muhammad the literal word of God; it is forbidden for a Muslim to question Allah, so they won’t. Ironically, Islam also accredits Abraham & Moses as Prophets; both of whom entered into robust dichotomies with God, as it befits responsible people to question everything regardless of source.  In the Quran Moses is merely a yes man, ~yes Allah, no Allah, anything you say Allah~  A mindless puppet; a non-person off little credibility & off no use to man or God.

Muhammad’s does have a pattern in all that he did & said, ~no wrong way for Muhammad to win, no right way for Muhammad to lose~  An expedient position if you are to fight all mankind until they submit to your rule, but hardly a moral position.  In this there is an underlying systemic immorality; not just a blind raffle. Is he competent to be bought to trial as a willful fraud & a criminal, or an incompetent to be dealt with under instruments of public safety?

2… delusions… the 11^th century philosopher al Ghazali used the tools of philosophy to prove some type of Prime Cause most probably exits therefore the prudent man must take the warnings of the Prophet seriously. Proof that wall is most probably made of wood, is not proof this chair is made of the same wood.  Proof that God most probably exists, does not constitute proof a clinical delusional speaks exclusively for him or even speaks for him at all

3… Genius is not exclusive to the good & the honest, if a person is deluded & a genius he still remains a genius capable of what all genius does; he just exercises genius in a dishonest form. Honest Genius (Darwin or Moses) collate things which are sound, creative genius collates things which are false.

4… Off moment is the center of page 4, Muhammad had an unfair advantage in the business of unconscionable expediency due to his mental health problems.

Many people live by expediency & wrong, yet all normal people have some level where conscience clicks in.  It may be a case of ~You left it a bit late mate, you should have faced up to this long before you did so much wrong~ Yet belated or not, conscience is now activated & there is hope of turnaround, redemption, reform & reconciliation with God.

It is said the Angels sing in heaven, every time someone seeks redemption in Christ.  Why not, God has recovered something previously lost.

Muslim’s attest Islam is an ~other~ rule & they are right.  Muhammad suffered from clinical conditions.  With clinical conditions there is no level at which conscience activates.

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Most major religions are intentionally constructive.  They vary only in the way they endeavor to understand the human condition, & from these different understandings they develop different types of societies & values.  Most have made constructive contributions to human development, none are intentionally malignant.   This is normal.

Islam is the only major religion which is systemically malignant; this is not normal. If it is not normal…. it’s clinical conditions.

There is no record of Prime Cause speaking directly to humans, no mechanics in physics or the natural law which would allow such to happen, & no point to human self determination if he did. The Prophets & Apostles of the Bible heard a calling to the highest man could aspire to & reasonably presume sound.  They communicated with this highest, only will regard to the best management of the human condition.  Matters of great importance to man, but matters of indifference to Prime Cause; no matter who or what he might be.

It is rightful that man should seek guidance from the best people in any particular field.  This is correct usage of human self determination, & this partnership with the Highest is the reason the Bible is held ~Holy~

Muhammad’s claim that Prime Cause spoke to or through him directly, & spoke only about the petty regulation of human affairs; plus conferring all power & authority on Muhammad; has no merit or basis whatsoever.  It is either intentional deceit, or clinically deluded.

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Ken Maynard.