I argued that so-called mystical enslaver religions are canonized expressions of the cultures that produced them, formalized by ruling-class men and later treated as sacred truth. There is no direct evidence that many prophets ever lived, only texts sanctioned by power. Later, an African youth repeated the claim that Arabs and Europeans got their religions from Africans, a view promoted by unscientific community figures who mislead children seeking real answers.
Religion functions as remembered culture. It encodes a people’s worldview, values, hierarchies, gender roles, authority, and survival strategies, then preserves them through myths, rituals, and sacred law. The mystical layer gives cultural norms cosmic legitimacy, making them durable and emotionally binding. Across history, religious canons were overwhelmingly shaped by men, which determined whose stories became sacred, how patriarchy was justified, and how power was protected. As a result, religion usually stabilizes existing hierarchies rather than overturning them.
A scientific analysis of Islam shows it emerged from specific material conditions in the Arabian Peninsula: desert ecology, pastoral nomadism, tribal warfare, scarcity, patriarchy, and near-total illiteracy. The Qurʾān, hadith, and later sharīʿa reflect these realities. Emphases on rain, livestock, wells, raids, spoils, captives, vengeance, and severe punishments mirror a harsh environment with no prisons, weak state structures, and constant survival threats. Patriarchal family law reflects male-centered kinship, inheritance, and lineage certainty in a mobile pastoral economy. Oral revelation and memorization match an illiterate society, while later legal systems developed alongside urbanization, writing, and early state formation.
Taken together, Islamic doctrine is an ideological superstructure shaped by desert nomadic tribal life. It universalized historically contingent survival strategies into eternal law and sanctified conquest, slavery, patriarchy, and violence. Africans did not teach this system to Arabs. Claiming otherwise is historical fiction.
People enslaved under these religious systems should stop defending them as liberatory truths. Instead of clinging to religions born from their own oppression, communities should develop moral systems grounded in their own histories, cultures, and material realities, and stop passing myths to the next generation.
Intellectual Warfare
Intellectual Warfare
I argued that so-called mystical enslaver religions are canonized expressions of the cultures that produced them, formalized by ruling-class men and later treated as sacred truth. There is no direct evidence that many prophets ever lived, only texts sanctioned by power. Later, an African youth repeated the claim that Arabs and Europeans got their religions from Africans, a view promoted by unscientific community figures who mislead children seeking real answers.
Religion functions as remembered culture. It encodes a people’s worldview, values, hierarchies, gender roles, authority, and survival strategies, then preserves them through myths, rituals, and sacred law. The mystical layer gives cultural norms cosmic legitimacy, making them durable and emotionally binding. Across history, religious canons were overwhelmingly shaped by men, which determined whose stories became sacred, how patriarchy was justified, and how power was protected. As a result, religion usually stabilizes existing hierarchies rather than overturning them.
A scientific analysis of Islam shows it emerged from specific material conditions in the Arabian Peninsula: desert ecology, pastoral nomadism, tribal warfare, scarcity, patriarchy, and near-total illiteracy. The Qurʾān, hadith, and later sharīʿa reflect these realities. Emphases on rain, livestock, wells, raids, spoils, captives, vengeance, and severe punishments mirror a harsh environment with no prisons, weak state structures, and constant survival threats. Patriarchal family law reflects male-centered kinship, inheritance, and lineage certainty in a mobile pastoral economy. Oral revelation and memorization match an illiterate society, while later legal systems developed alongside urbanization, writing, and early state formation.
Taken together, Islamic doctrine is an ideological superstructure shaped by desert nomadic tribal life. It universalized historically contingent survival strategies into eternal law and sanctified conquest, slavery, patriarchy, and violence. Africans did not teach this system to Arabs. Claiming otherwise is historical fiction.
People enslaved under these religious systems should stop defending them as liberatory truths. Instead of clinging to religions born from their own oppression, communities should develop moral systems grounded in their own histories, cultures, and material realities, and stop passing myths to the next generation.
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