imported_Rope
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Maybe because he was the greatest man to ever have lived?
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Why did Michael H. Hart put Mohammad as the MOST influential person in history?
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John D is back
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Because his teachings still control a large chunk of the world and has resulted in the largest number of terrorist attacks, violations of human rights, etc.
By the same standard, Hitler can be considered one of the most important persons in recent history.
By the same standard, Hitler can be considered one of the most important persons in recent history.
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Because his teachings still control a large chunk of the world and has resulted in the largest number of terrorist attacks, violations of human rights, etc.
By the same standard, Hitler can be considered one of the most important persons in recent history.
By the same standard, Hitler can be considered one of the most important persons in recent history.
Duckman and Weasel
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Because he hasn't read about everybody else yet.
This is because he split the credit for the dissemination of Christianity between Jesus and Paul, which itself is a controversial decision. If he was faithful to his own argument he would have had to divide the dissemination of christianity between Jesus and all of the apostles according to their supposed relative influence and limit Jesus' influence to the people he influenced in his earthly lifetime. Had he then been internally consistent he would have had to do the same with Mohammad, sharing out his influence between the succeeding Calif's. Perhaps that is what he did, I don't know. If he had done this Mohammad would still have come out on top, since at the end of Jesus' earthly lifetime, there were 120 belivers. By the end of Mohammad's lifetime he had converted several countries and commanded a vast army of followers. Of course there are some academics who attribute the whole of christianity to the apostle Paul and think of Jesus as a figment of Paul's imagination, just as Socrates was a figment of Plato's, but that is a controversial discussion which Hart has only paid homage to, in the splitting the credit for the dissemination of Christianity equally between Jesus and Paul.
This does not detract from the fact that Christianity still has much more followers than Islam, although at the rate Islam is still growing I doubt that claim will be able to be made for much longer.
This does not detract from the fact that Christianity still has much more followers than Islam, although at the rate Islam is still growing I doubt that claim will be able to be made for much longer.
tdzmgtzfxm
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Because Mohammad inspired a religion that now involves 1,000,000,000+ people world wide.
This is because he split the credit for the dissemination of Christianity between Jesus and Paul, which itself is a controversial decision. If he was faithful to his own argument he would have had to divide the dissemination of christianity between Jesus and all of the apostles according to their supposed relative influence and limit Jesus' influence to the people he influenced in his earthly lifetime. Had he then been internally consistent he would have had to do the same with Mohammad, sharing out his influence between the succeeding Calif's. Perhaps that is what he did, I don't know. If he had done this Mohammad would still have come out on top, since at the end of Jesus' earthly lifetime, there were 120 belivers. By the end of Mohammad's lifetime he had converted several countries and commanded a vast army of followers. Of course there are some academics who attribute the whole of christianity to the apostle Paul and think of Jesus as a figment of Paul's imagination, just as Socrates was a figment of Plato's, but that is a controversial discussion which Hart has only paid homage to, in the splitting the credit for the dissemination of Christianity equally between Jesus and Paul.
This does not detract from the fact that Christianity still has much more followers than Islam, although at the rate Islam is still growing I doubt that claim will be able to be made for much longer.
This does not detract from the fact that Christianity still has much more followers than Islam, although at the rate Islam is still growing I doubt that claim will be able to be made for much longer.