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Quite so. Buddhism is the most 'Humanist' Religion there is...As there is no 'God'to be accountable to, we are fully responsible for - and to - ourselves.

Substitute the word 'Arguement'(sic) for 'Proof', then I'd sit up and take notice.

I guess you are right although I�m not familiar with Bible.
You have to know that two of the first Muslims were Christian. One of them was Khadijeh (first Mohammad wife), she was the one of the richest people in Mecca on that time and during her life Mohammad hadn�t any another wife, and another was one of closest pal of Islam prophet named Roozbeh (Arab call him Salman Farsi) that was helper/councilor of Mohammad.


yeah, Buddhism accepted in the world as a religion. I guess Buddhism can better deal with human needed in compare of other religions.

Muhammed did have another wife. She was six years old when he married her and he took her virginity at nine. Muhammed was a pedophile.

No, he wasn't. Such actions were acceptable then, because Mary mother of Christ was around 12, according to Biblical authoritative historians. So by your reckoning, that would make God a paedophile too....Wouldn't it?
In the USA, even today, different states have different age limits to marriage and sex, so I think perhaps that was a bit of a sweeping statement, don't you?

Thank you Alexandra, I thought about responding to that too being as 2000 years ago the morals of those living were far different than they are today. I think most of the elite in Roman times had young boys in the bath houses. Further evidence that morals are evolved and not handed down by God. Now I am mixing up the forums .

Just a side note:
Bye the way I love your name. My daughter is named Alexandria after the Egyptian city and library that fell to the Christians in 413 and began the dark ages. Carl Sagan has said we would have walked on the moon by the year 1000 had it not been for the knowledge lost when that Library was burned in the name of God.
Is it any wonder that the tree Adam and Eve ate from in the myth is the "tree of knowledge". The symbolism here is is exactly what religion practices today, knowledge is death, faith is life.

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Yeah you mean �Ayeshe�, she was one of the most effective woman in Islam history. Her father was �Abo Bakre� first Islam Califa (substitute of Mohammad).

I just told Khadijeh was the first wife and our prophet hadn�t other wives during her life.
Mohmmad had married 15 times and 2 divorces and two slave women. He had 11 wives in same time and when died had 9 wives.

According to Islam a girl can marry in 9 year old and boy in 15.

Alexandra
Oh so amazing Mary was 12!! I care to tell my opinion in this case.

three of Knowldge.
skeptic
yeah maybe
I think any prevent and unreason order have not to be follow by sane people, beside it take more attention, when try to prevent people from something.

Mary was 15 not 12 when the Holy Spirit came upon her. There is a huge difference between that and nine. 15 can be a very young woman but 9 is a child, period. Muhammad was a pedophile.

Did you try to justify this?
If God was almighty no any difference�s between 12 and 15 would be, I guess.