Originally Posted by The Batlord

And Christianity doesn't? I'm sorry, but while Islam in the Renaissance gave us some great ****, it's otherwise just as much garbage as any other major religion. I understand the desire to desire to defend muslims, but their religion doesn't sound any less garbage than anyone else's, and everyone's religion is basically garbage.

Originally Posted by Frownland

Christianity does not have Sufis, no.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Isn't that just a very obvious technicality?

Originally Posted by Frownland

Yes, but I'd go as far as to say that they don't have a Sufi equivalent that's large enough to matter as well.

Also note that I'm just answering your questions, not fulfilling my desire to desire to defend Islam.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.