Christianity institutionalizes slavery too, simply by spelling out the responsibilities that masters and slaves have.
Using the Bible to justify owning slaves is considered bad form these days, however. Islam, being about 800 years younger, hasn't gotten to the same social stage, in my opinion, and it is a horrible joke of the Cosmic All that the most backward Islamic societies ended up being the most wealthy, so they haven't been forced, due to free trade necessity, to grow up faster. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jedi_spock@...> wrote : Nice to meet you Krysto. Islam sanctions institutionalised slavery. A muslim man can keep any number of non-muslim women as slaves. He can also keep any number of concubines, apart from his 4 wives. Jihadi supremacists are serious about this stupid, unscientific, barbaric religious ideology. These "revelations" are the delusions of a lunatic, and anybody who believes them, are just like the people who believed Hitler or Stalin. --- <krysto@...> wrote : Talk of Sam Harris brings me out of the FFL shadows. Harris is, in my view, one of the clearest and boldest thinkers in the world today. One may disagree with any number of his positions (that radical Islam presents a dire threat to the world, that free will is an illusion, that science can guide our moral decisions) but the intelligence and power with which he expresses himself is stunning. The surprising twist that this committed atheist and materialist is fascinated by the value that meditation can provide makes him all the more interesting. Go for it, Rick!
