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Look Into Your Own Heart, Discover What It Is That Gives You Pain And Then Refuse, Under Any Circumstance Whatsoever, To Inflict That Pain On Anybody Else.

There Is Nothing In Islam That Is More Violent Than Christianity.

Now I Think One Of The Reasons Why Religion Developed In The Way That It Did Over The Centuries Was Precisely To Curb This Murderous Bent That We Have As Human Beings.

People Knew There Were Two Ways Of Coming At Truth. One Was Science, Or What The Greeks Called Logos, Reason, Logic. And That Was Essential That The Discourse Of Science Or Logic Related Directed To The External World. The Other Was Mythos, What The Greeks Called Myth, Which Didn't Mean A Fantasy Story, But It Was A Narrative Associated With Ritual And Ethical Practice But It Helped Us To Address Problems For Which There Were No Easy Answers, Like Mortality, Cruelty, The Sorrow That Overtakes Us All That's Part Of The Human Condition. And These Two Were Not In Opposition, We Needed Both.

For Centuries, The Muslims Were Able To Co-exist Perfectly Well With Jews And Christians In The Middle East.