{"id":41241,"date":"2012-03-06T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41241"},"modified":"2012-03-06T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:00:26","slug":"when-islam-breeds-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41241","title":{"rendered":"When Islam Breeds Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaida, the Muslim Brotherhood, the ayatollahs, Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan, the Taliban and all the other Islamist organizations actually decrease the number of believers in the world.<\/p>\n

Over the course of time, people do not judge religions by their theology. Yes, some people convert to a religion thanks to its convincing theology. And many remain in a religion because of family ties, cultural norms and sheer inertia. But over time, religion — and faith in God itself — is judged by its fruit. Which is how it should be.<\/p>\n

And the best known fruit of Islam today — countries calling themselves Muslim, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Taliban Afghanistan, not to mention Islamist groups — is so ugly that many millions of people are increasingly repelled by religion and by God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes: Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaida, the Muslim Brotherhood, the ayatollahs, Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan, the Taliban and all the other Islamist organizations actually decrease the number of believers in the world. Over the course of time, people do not judge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t