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Historical analysis of religious developments, events, and theological movements relevant to apologetics.
REFORMERS ON THE ASSUMPTION Paid Members Public
Jan Huss on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary “… and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.” (Quoting Sirach 24) “Although the words of this epistle primarily relate to the uncreated Wisdom, they also secondarily relate to the glorious Virgin
MORE EXAMPLES OF MUHAMMAD’S FOUL MOUTH Paid Members Public
In this post I will share some more examples of the foul moth of both Muhammad and his companions, showing that neither he nor they were above insulting their opponents in the most graphic and vulgar manner. For instance, Muhammad bluntly and explicitly told people who boasted in their lineage
THE CORRUPT QURAN’S MISSING VERSES PT. 2 Paid Members Public
This post is a continuation of the following one: THE CORRUPT QURAN’S MISSING VERSES PT. 1. The proceeding snippet is taken from another Shia site: Some Ahadith of Omission | The Quran. Some Ahadith of Omission It is not possible to give detail of all the verses, sentences and phrases
THE CORRUPT QURAN’S MISSING VERSES PT. 1 Paid Members Public
The following excerpt has been taken from this specific Shia site: Chapter Eight: Sunni reports about deletions from the Quran. EIGHT: The companions did not believe in the completeness of the Quran as they attested to numerous verses being lost from Surah Ahzab We have relied on the following authentic
THE APOSTATE THAT EXPOSED MUHAMMAD Paid Members Public
The Islamic sources indicate that a group of Muslims migrated to the Christian land of Abyssinia for safe haven when the pagans in Mecca opposed Muhammad and his followers. Muhammad sent them there because he had heard that the Christian king (Najashi [Negus]) was a just and pious ruler who
THE PAGAN GODS ALLAH AND AHAD Paid Members Public
MORE PROOF OF ISLAM’S PAGAN ROOTS The following references are all taken from Ahmad Al-Jallad’s book, The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions, published by Brill, Leiden/New York, 2022. All emphasis will be mine. RODAW: ALLAH THE
AHAD: A PRE-ISLAMIC PAGAN DEITY? Paid Members Public
In this post I will be citing snippets from the fabulous work of epigrapher Ahmad Al-Jallad in respect to some of the pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions he and his colleagues have discovered, which prove quite devastating to the traditional Muslim narrative. Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language.
EBIONITES TO THE RESCUE? Paid Members Public
Muhammadans are notorious in appealing to heretical Christian groups, which began to flourish from the second century AD onwards, for the purpose of confirming the Quran’s assertion that Jesus’ original followers were all Muslims. Conveniently, these polemicists fail to note that these groups actually prove that Muhammad is a