It was the Muslims who originally separated people into groups, calling the non-Muslims by a specific name, and denigrating them.
what! you're kidding right? muslims ain't the first to do this--in fact, christians were calling pantheic (or is paganistic the term?) religions heathens and pagan, a distinct group from christians, well before muslims were around. Hell, we were separating in Us, Them defintions even before civilization--this is our group, they are not us. What's not specific about egyptian, jew, babylonian, assyrian, hittite, roman, etruscan, phonecian, greek, indian, barbarian, (whatever the ancient Sudanese are called?), persians. Granted, those are our translations of what these people called themselves and how they were recognized by others, but still, distinct groups, with the whole Us, Them complex.
Actually, I'd say all religion is false--how can they all be true? If one is true, what is it that makes it true--that you say it is?.
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