On 07/24/2016 02:14 AM, Mirimir wrote:

I sometimes wonder where we'd be if Islam had gone global before Christianity di
d.

     The Persian civilization spawned three major religions:
     Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism (which heavily influenced Saint
     Augustine before he turned to Christianity), and the Bahá'í Faith.
     They even contributed greatly to Islam. Another religion that arose
     from ancient Iran is Mazdakism, which has been dubbed the first
     communistic ideology.

   [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people#Religion
   [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdak

On 07/23/2016 11:20 PM, Rayzer wrote:


On 07/23/2016 10:05 PM, Mirimir wrote:

On 07/23/2016 10:35 PM, Александр wrote:

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Thank you, Rayzer! It's extremely important to purify the True
Islamic Religion/Quran from all the garbage the western
fuckers/crazy extremists have put on it.

Except for the religious bullshit, it's not far off
anarchocapitalism.





Like Christianity... It doesn't HAVE TO be capitalist but note
point 5. "It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of
contemporary times..." Contemporary times is Crapitalist times, and
organized religions, for better or worse, will go with that flow.

I think that there's market-based stuff in Islam that predates Western
capitalism. There's also a lot that anticipates socialism. Building on
Christianity. I sometimes wonder where we'd be if Islam had gone
global before Christianity did.


As little as I like organized religions they ARE a vehicle for
moving masses of people in a given direction. Too bad psychopaths
take over just as surely as they take over corporations and any
other organizational structure.

Yes, too bad :(

References

   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people#Religion
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdak