C H A P T E R X
L O O S E S T A T E M E N T S - N O T A S I N G L E O F T H E M PROVED
Loose statements. So unbelievably cheap to make if you do not have to prove anything. So totally without value. And so easy for naïve or primitive or uneducated - or brainwashed - people, or people imprinted with some ideas and imprinted to believe without thinking, to fall for. Especially if they want to believe. And even more so if the spinner of the tales is a charismatic leader knowing how to manipulate people.
And then - sometimes tales that people tell are true. Even unbelievable things happen. What are you to believe?
Science has a very good rule-of-the-thumb: The more unbelievable the story, the stronger proofs are needed.
And in religion proofs should be easy - any god worth his followers is able to do a few wonders or foretell things.
But in spite of many requests for proofs, Muslims never got anything but fast talk, and loose statements, etc.
On the other hand they have lots and lots of loose statements - literally at least a couple of thousands. But not one single proof.
It can be said that when somebody is telling a story, such a story has to be composed of statements, descriptions, etc. To a degree it is true. But only to a degree. You have to be naïve or primitive or both to believe the unbelievable - and all the same people believe - - - just think about all the money waiting you from Nigeria “if only you pay a certain amount first” or other bluffs people fall for.
Of course it is easier to believe what you have been told from you were a baby, and even more so if you in addition are thought and imprinted: The leader is always right, and it is heresy, stupid and dangerous to think differently.
Muslim countries have a serious problem: They can not teach their children and youths critical thinking - because then they start asking critical questions, and Islam have many critical questions they do not want to hear. But on the other hand all progress is based on someone asking critical questions about this and that - is this true, cannot that be different or another thing done better? This may f. ex. be the simple explanation why the entire Muslim world registers fewer new patents a year than just the state of California. Ok. California is good - but there are top universities in the Muslim world, too. And the problem is unsolvable as long as one does not face the problems of the mistakes etc. in the Quran, and as long as the religious societies are strong enough to stop questions and certain kinds of education.
The Quran is built on statements, “signs” and “proofs”, not one of them proved (as I said before: With the possible exception of some signs that may be prove Yahweh). Plus a lot of psychology.
I will quote just some samples, as there is such an awful lot of them, and as they are so easy to see once you go looking for them and for the lack of proofs. I just quote some from here and some from there - there is an enormous choice.
001 1/2: “Praise be to Allah the - - - Sustainer of the Worlds”. A statement - but not proven.
002 2/2: “This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt - - -”. Two statements, both without proofs - and both doubtful.
003 2/16: “These are they who have bartered guidance for error - - -”. Proof is needed, especially as “guidance” refers to the Quran - - - a book with lots of mistakes.
004 2/22: “(Allah*) has made the earth your couch - - -”. May be Allah, may be another god, may be nature. Who can really know and not just believe without a proof?
005 2/25: “- - -(Muslims’*) portion is the Gardens - - -”. Well, it at least is stated like that.
006 2/29: “- - - He (Allah*) gave order and perfection to the seven firmaments (=heavens*) - - -”. Here one definitely needs good proofs, because this statement is very wrong - there exist no seven firmaments, only one, and even that is an illusion, not a material heaven.
007 2/39: “But those (non-Muslims*) who reject Faith and belie Our (Allah’s*) Signs, they shall be Companions of the Fire - - -”. Just as well or as little documented as what was said about heaven in 2/25. Just words anyone can use - obey Baal or Zews and go to Heaven, and disobey him and go to Hell. Anyone can say anything as long as he can evade demands for proofs.
008 2/46: “(Muslims*) bear in mind the certainty that they are to meet their Lord (Allah*), and that they are to return to Him”. All Muslims want to - and do - believe this. But they only have the words of an often brutal warlord for it. A statement without a proof - not valid, and of no value except for politicians and cheaters. No judge had accepted such a statement as a proof in a criminal case. And a possible next life is much more essential than f. ex. a petty burglary.
009 2/65-66: “We (Allah*) said to them (bad people*): ‘Be ye apes, despised and rejected. So We made it an example to their own time and to their posterity - - -”. Transforming humans to animals is frequently done in fairy tales - and the Quran takes some of its tales from fairy tales. But to do the same in a presumed real story, takes some proof. And here only is a statement - nothing more. No proof.
010 2/87: “We (Allah*) gave Moses the Book - - -”. Also a loose statement built on cheap words, as Moses never had those books. He only had the Ten Commandments. According to science that book (the Torah = first five “books” in the Bible) was written 500-800 years later. Strong proofs necessary. (It is possible Moses wrote something, but not the Torah.)
011 2/98: “- - - Allah is an enemy to those who reject Faith (Islam*)”.
I. Muhammad was never even able to prove that Allah existed.
II. Muhammad was never able to prove anything about his religion. Never.
Only unproven statements.
Of course it is possible to believe it - even to believe it strongly. But it is just belief - right or wrong - not real knowledge. Like it or not.
012 2/107: “Knowest you not that to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens (plural and wrong) and the earth?” No. I do not. It may be true or it may not be true - I only have the words of a book I know contains many mistakes, handed down from a man I would not trust very much as a witness if I were a judge in a court. Proofs are urgently needed.
013 2/109: “- - - Allah hath power over all things.” Perhaps - and perhaps not. At least he has never shown his power, not even when asked several times by his followers - and by sceptics - for a proof of his existence. Muhammad glossed it over with fast words - not all of them logical (f. ex. that a real proof of a god would make no-one believe anyhow - rubbish to be polite), and Muhammad was too intelligent and knew too much about people not to know it was untrue.
014 2/110: “- - - Allah sees well what all that ye do.” May be true. May be a smart trick by a cunning someone to keep you obeying at all times? It is not possible to know just on basis of a loose statement.
015 2/115: “For Allah is All-Pervading, All-Knowing”. Looking at the miserable state the facts and the “signs” in the Quran are in, strong proofs for this are urgently needed.
016 2/117: “To Him (Allah*) is due the primal origin of the heavens (plural and wrong*) and the earth - - -”. To Allah or to the nature? Science believes more in nature, and Allah never proved the opposite.
017 2/119: “Verily, We (Allah*) have sent thee (Muslims*) in truth a bearer of glad tidings (Muhammad*) - - -”. Muhammad never was able to prove his words came from a god. Without proofs Islam has had to degrade to terrorism to keep questions at bay. Muhammad is the weak link for Islam, and no - NO - sceptical questions or remarks are accepted. Proofs most urgently needed.
018 2/127: “And remember Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the House (Kabah in Mecca*) - - -”. As it is extremely unlikely that Abraham ever visited Mecca, this unproven statement needs a real proof. Now it is like a certain sect stating that Jesus visited America during his last days on earth - just words.
019 2/137: “He (Allah*) is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing”. See 2/115.
020 2/139: “Will ye dispute with us about Allah, seeing that He is our Lord and your Lord - - -”. Islam likes to pretend or state that Allah and Yahweh/God is the same god. But both the gods and their teachings are very different - as said before especially if you compare the bloody god of war Allah was turned into in and after 622 AD after Muhammad came to need warriors for highwaymen and later for wars, with the far milder and benevolent God we meet in NT. The Quran makes a lot of statements, but not one single proof, even though it should be easy for Allah to prove something - at least his own existence. Besides: Read history - Muslim history like Ibn Ishaq if you want - and see what kind of a man Muhammad really was! I do not accept the word of a man with that kind of moral and ethical standards, without proofs - there have to be limits to being naïve.
021 2/140: “But Allah is not unmindful of what ye do”. Based on just a statement made up of words, that may be a hope. If it was proved, it had been a certainty.
But Muhammad never was able to prove anything at all about Allah or the rest of his teachings. Not one thing.
P O S T S C R I P T U R E T O C H A P T E R X .
As I said there were many, many such unproven statements - if somebody tells me there are some 2000 I will not be surprised. I have picked 21 just from the first half of the 2. surah, and I have just picked one here and one there from that half. There are 114 surahs (though no. 2 by far is the longest).
20-21 is more than enough to show you how it works - and it is easy for anyone to find most of the rest. Just ask yourself “is this sentence a statement or a fact” when you read the book. In any book - also facts book - there will be a lot of statements. But at least the main points in a story has to be more than just loose words and invalid statements, “signs” and “proofs”. That is not the case in the Quran - on the contrary: A lot of the “facts” it presents are wrong. And not least: It is presented by a man of very dubious character striving for power.
Read the book yourself - but engage your brain and your knowledge when you do so.
I do not repeat the thoughts about hallmarks for cheats and deceivers from the Post Scripture of chapter IX. But I do repeat the name Joseph Goebbles.
Cairo, 12.12.07.