I told my Muslim cousin I wouldn't even know what I'm saying if I prayed in Arabic and he said "you just gotta feel it"

Which honestly makes me wonder if the 5 daily prayer ritual triggers an epigenetic expression or neuroplastic adaptation that contributes to Muslim faithfulness

@LysanderMooner

Most Muslims I talked to who were going out of their way to publicly proselytize Islam and who were male

Seem to claim that you can not trust the Bible since you know it changed because each English translation has a different text

They do not understand that the question would be if the Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic original texts changed

They insist on only the Quran in Arabic counting

But most Muslims throughout the world can not read Arabic

allah is satan
false god with a pedophile for a prophet

@koropokkur @LysanderMooner @shortstories Dont forget the Christian churches in those countries use the same word. While Islam is a great heresy, I don't believe their God is Satan. They were mislead into Arianism and other heresies as a corruption, which is arguably worse in many ways due to being close enough to be tougher to convince of the truth of Christ.

>I don't believe their God is Satan.
When you read their own stories around how Mohammed received his supposed divine revelation it becomes extremely hard to deny satanic influence in it, rather than relying purely on the more mundane "it came out of pre-existing heresies" explanation.

There's also the implicit connection of the devil being called the "lord of this world" and how obscenely worldly islam is. Seriously, its conception of heaven is literally a whorehouse. Or how one of the 99 names of the islamic god is "master of lies" (or something to that effect)

Or the few times the islamic god is depicted with a personality (rather than as an unknowable monad god, which is also common) it's that of a petty and spiteful slavemaster. In many ways like a caricature of the image of the "wrathful" depiction of God in the OT.

@Umlaut @LysanderMooner @shortstories @koropokkur The last paragraph is basically gnosticism, so I do think it's entirely consistent with the repackaging of old heresies with some Antichrist satanic influence.

Islam lacks pretty much all the other relevant gnostic beliefs however, they also don't have a demiurge or the like. It was also basically dead when Mohammed was kicking around.

I'm not saying it's novel, I just think "it's repackaged old heresies" is really lazy and based of very shallow looks into islam (not that islam is deep lol). If you want to say it's repackaged anything it'd be repackaged Talmudry, since it's effectively the same thing but for Arabs.

@Umlaut @LysanderMooner @shortstories @koropokkur They do believe Christ will return and kill the antichrist and his followers and btfo Satan, so that's a step above talmudists. Still wrong for everything else involved. They can't accept The Trinity in even a Modalism sort of way yet still think Christ was special enough to do what He did via earthly ministry, ascend into heaven, and eventually return. It's very odd to me and makes me think it's absolutely influenced by Satan.

>They do believe Christ will return and kill the antichrist and his followers and btfo Satan,
I actually don't buy this. It reeks of taqiyyah to me and I can't recall if it's actually in the quran.