[tomzz]

You might want to ping some of the others on your list on this topic. The really big problem with I-slam is one which hardly anybody understands, i.e. the fact that the entire religion is based on a provably false assumption which is that there is in fact such a thing as prophets or prophecy in our own age of the world. In real life the last real prophet died around 2500 years ago and ANYBODY claiming to be a prophet since then is basically a con man. Prophecy involved a paradigm for the use of the human mind and brain which has since passed out of this world other than for one or two leftover and disfunctional vestiges, namely hypnotism and schizophrenia. The starting point for this topic is still Julian Jaynes' "Origin of Consciousness", which you can find in paperback fairly easily. The first paragraph of the book of Hebrews in the NT flatly states that prophets were a thing of the past at the time of Christ, and that Christ had been sent to the Earth to bear witness to man BECAUSE there were no more prophets.

[attiladhun2]

I've been saying the same thing for years. The NT recognizes "prophets", but not in the formal sense of one who reveals the hand of God in the affairs of man. NT prophets are those who provide consolation to the oppressed and afflicted. Jesus was a prophet, but far more than a prophet. He warned against those who would come declaring another message. He called them wolves in sheep's clothing. Mad Mo would be among them. He fits the profile of a pseudo-prophet to a tee: greedy, sexually perverse, power hungry, suspicious, vengeful, proud, using his "revelations" to manipulate others. He wanted to screw his adopted son's wife, so Allah conveniently gave him a vision to sanction what had been considered taboo in ancient Arabia. That is what a false prophet does. A real prophet is a servant. Mad Mo came to be served, to pillage, to rape, to plunder, to steal, to dissemble, to con.