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Not really sure how Mohammed can be said to have a "dubious" history. If you don't want to believe the traditional accounts, that's fair, but late antiquity was not a golden age of objective recorded history lol, so there isn't much better info to go off otherwise. I would refer people to r/AcademicQuran on issues of early Islamic history.

I can't say whether Smith had a "dubious" history, but I'm not inclined to take this view because people think it's ok to bigoted and dismissive of the Church of LDS, and I think it's unfair.

Also polygamy was part of pre-Islamic Arabia, whereas it was contrary to custom and law in the context in which the LDS Church developed. Comparison on this point is superficial.



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This is a stupid and bigoted comment that doesn't even make sense given that r/AcademicQuran is full of people citing secular academics.


Mohammad is a Shi'ite now? Is this like Muslims sacking Taxila before they existed?


Mohammad doesn't post at r/AcademicQuran.




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