It’s amazing that people STILL can’t recognize a troll when they see one.
If people just ignored these obvious trolls the itbernet would be a lot better, but everyone needs to win their stupid internet argument.
lol partially naked woman for the world to see talking about the Bible.
The one barely covering her breasts talking about the Bible. Apropos.
The Bible takes place almost entirely in the middle east and I would guess this guy’s mental reel of it looks like an Imagine Dragons concert.
I have seen multiple images like this and I always like them:
That can’t be right. The Garden of Eden is in Daviess County, Missouri
Not if you ask the Mormons.
There’s also a Christian sect in Japan that claim that Jesus came to Japan.
Jesus was the original weeb
Are mecca and medina even in that circle? Yemen definitely isn’t. Image is definitely false.
This kind of surprised me but Wikipedia says mecca at least isn’t referenced in the Quran: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca#:~:text=Mecca is generally considered "the,was first revealed to Muhammad.
Not true: https://quran.com/48?startingVerse=24
Do you know why there are sources discussing that it isn’t? Admittedly can’t really even find something reliable worth citing but see some historical Islam groups discussing Makka and Bakka as mentioned in the Quran and attributes to modern Mecca. But this doesn’t seem to be in any mainstream articles or easily found academic paper
I’m not really familiar with the subject but curious what’s the nuance I’m missing since it feels like there’s a weird historical debate here I’d like to read up on
I’m not sure. It’s the first I’ve ever heard of it. The Western academic approach to Islamic studies is historically rooted in refuting Islam’s credibility instead of objectively studying it, so you’ll hear all sorts of wild assertions and conclusions that would make a five year old Muslim laugh. It may be improving these days, but I don’t keep current with this stuff. Anyways, Mecca is literally in the Arabic text of the Quran, so it’s not some translator filling in the gaps with interpretation:
