Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and, dared to suggest, that
space was boundless and that the sun was and its planets were but one of any
number of similar systems: Why?? There even might be other inhabited worlds
with rational beings equal or possibly superior to us.
For such blasphemy,
Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in
1600. Galileo was brought forward in
1633, and, there, in front of his "betters," he was, under the threat
of torture and death, forced to his knees to renounce all belief in Copernican
theories, and was thereafter sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his
days.
Entire Europe was suffering from the terror of Christianity. They also ended up colonizing 25% of the world.
Thanks to many brave Europeans , Europe got out of grip of the Christianity and civilization moved dramatically forward.
Islam,
watching the video many ppl posted here and reading what Kuran says about the god, Islam looks like a derivative religion of Hinduism.
Christian modified Old testament (of Jews) to create New Testament. Looks like whoever wrote Koran took basic concept of god from Hindu books (apparently Ved, Mahabharat) and modified here and there to create new religion. Koran also shows signs of inputs from old and New Testaments.
Presence of Jewish historical and mythical material in the Koran. however there are many error in Koran while mentioning Jews historical accounts that suggests that he received those information orally, and probably from men who had no great amount of book-learning themselves.
Similarly inclusion of many stories from Christian bible with different details indicated that existence many different version of Christian biblical stories at the time of Mohammad. and he might have received orally one of the popular versions of that time.
Koran sound like a concoct of different religion that is why it is very easy to manipulate. I am sorry to say that Islam is most manipulated religion at present.
power hungry Muslims ( they might have seen economic benefit too) Immediately after the death of Mohammad manipulated about his successor and shia and sunny faction were created. And we all know at present in Iraq there is war going on between two.
Asad of Syria is supported by Iran (shia) and opposed by Sunni (Saudi Arab).
Similarly there is a rift between shia (majority) and Sunni ( minority but, ruling clan ) in Baharin.
Present day there is a power struggle going on between Shia and Sunni in Islamic world.
So, having one book ( unmodified ) did not bring any good to the religion, it suffered the same fate as other religion.
Think about id there is only one website, one television,only one news paper how boring the world be who is in the power will always try to manipulate the situation in his favor.
If Koran is a science , Think about if there is only on book that describes physics, chemistry, biology math etc ect. How boring would it be ? not possible isn't it.
Always different thought/multiple personalities are required to move the civilization forward. We already know how One Bible domination froze the development. So one book in its original form is not a matter of pride.
A book written thousands of yrs ago can not be used to run the present day society. The book has become obsolete. Its correct place is the museum. Main problem of the Islam is this. Islam is one of the most manipulated religion and Muslims are suffering a lot because of this.
Regarding the Koran raveled to Mohammed by god is totally laughing stuff.
The concept of god which existed in Hinduism almost 2000 yrs before Mohammed and historical accounts which bible and Talmud already describes need not be revealed. even if he was illustrate he could receive this orally from a person who knows it fully or partially. You don't need to be illiterate to listen to some one. In Neplai villages lots of Illiterate Nepali ppl know about Mahabharat and Ramayan even though they cant read and write.
Now it is established that earth revolves round the sun. It was confirmed in 16th century. Now some illiterate guy from Nepal come forward and says, god revealed me that earth revolves round the sun not otherwise as mentioned in the bible, how laughable will that be.
any educated ppl tell a illiterate villager that earth revolve round the sun and he could choose to believe that. It is that simple. he don't need to be a student of science to believe that.
All so called god/prophet etc etc be it be Kisna/Mohammed/Jesus or whoever always say only me, no one else. This concept perfectly fits the definition of a Dictator in present day.
And saying that "it is the matter of salvation think carefully" is the scare tactics used by cunning ppl to lure the innocent. If we human need salvation, we need salvation from god and religion not salvation through religion and god.
And god created humans to pray him ?? what a lame reason. If someone creates something for his praise then he is a false god. He must be a namud "chakadi " seeker.
Or may be god can not survive without someone praying him ? in that case he needs human, human don't need him. then again he is a false god.
I am not touching Budhhism here because Budhha never said he is a god. and he only spread his teachings not in the name of god/gods son/ etc etc