Mohammad was a genius

Submitted by Prophet2 (United States), Sep 25, 2006 at 06:59

What a genious? I am serious!

If I wanted to gain for myself the following:

• perpetual fame
• admiration
• respect
• power
• influence
• booty
• unquestionable authority

How could I achieve all this if I started with NOTHING , had no education, family or personal wealth? Let me think for a minute------------!. I'VE GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's what I might do:

• Find myself a small audience of uneducated, gullible people who had a need to believe in a god and that I could mezmerize and/or intimidate.
• Persuade them that I know of a single god who is all powerful and jealous and that this god has chosen me to be his spokesperson (messenger, prophet or whatever)
• I could create a new religion with a powerful name around my new god
• Persuade them that I am the only one who can communicate directly with this god so they all have to rely on me to advise them what he wants and what they must do.
• Since I have nothing tangible of my own to offer them as a reward, I could offer them booty (spoils of war or possessions of others that they will help me take by force or they can take by force without me) but they would have to share whatever they take (or steal) with me. This would be their immediate reward. I could also offer them forgiveness of past sins and a promise of unlimited satisfaction, unlimited knowledge, unlimited sense of brotherhood, unlimited material possessions, and unlimited sexual pleasure AFTER THEIR DEATHS in a mystical place that I will call PARADISE.
• I would persuade them that it is okay, even honorable, to satisfy their basic emotions of envy, hate, revenge, jealosy, etc. if done in the cause of my new religion.
• Persuade them that it is a heresy to question anything I say, especially about my new religion.
• Persuade them that offenses to my religion is punishable by death and that my god approves and endorses all that I propose.
• Persuade them that leaving my religion is punishable by death.
• Persuade the men that they will have total control within their own household.
• Teach that if others would only come around to this new belief, I will be gentle, kind, compassionate, generous and peaceful. Stress these points when I am trying to convert non-believers where I don't have the power to covert at the point of a sword.
• Make up some fables about my travels, experiences, heroics in battles, etc. that serve to prove that my god favors me.
• Persuade them that my god has instructed me to instruct them to spead this new religion thoughout the earth, by word or by sword and to kill all those who oppose or disagree.

This should about do it. I now have the basis for achieving my goal and have made it pretty much "bulletproof". Even if my philosophy were insincere, this would probably work. No one would be able to question it. How would you ever know for sure? Eventually, the whole world would have to come around to my point of view or perish.

I am not saying that Mohammed followed this path, but it would be genius if he had. I think he was a genius in any case. Love or terror?

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