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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Prior to Muhammed coming on the scene the Arab world had a relatively advanced civilization. It excelled in mathematics, science and astronomy. We got our number system from them. As Islam spread advances came to a screeching halt.
A woman minister I know spent considerable time in the middle east. She told me some amazing stories one of which I recall vividly. She was in a village containing a deep well which was just a hole in the ground. Every once in a while a child would fall into the well and drown. When she asked why they did not build a wall around the well to prevent such tragedies they informed her that such occurrences were Allah's will. They remarkably did not build a wall around the hole to prevent such future tragedies.
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That's kind of medieval thinking with respect to holding that God or whatever permeates everything that happens. Kings and other depots made great use of it in the Divine Right of Kings.
Divine right of kings - Wikipedia BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Divine Right of Kings