If you have the Holy Spirit and you listen to Him to submit to Him with your trust and obedience, I cannot mislead you from Truth; no one can. If what I teach you are lies, He will tell you, and if they are true, He will tell you too. Believe the Holy Spirit.

Horticulture, agriculture, and animal husbandry. Dear son, in your search for a wife, look also among women that have evident interest in tending to plants and flowers, growing food by themselves, and keeping and nurturing animals at home.

"For your safety, for your security, and for your convenience;" These are the three appealing packages within which Satan, by the governments of men, presents chains and shackles unto modern man, affording him ease to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. Beware of devils.

Yep it’s a real verse and it’s in the text. Someone can read it, build their life around it, and be a better person for it. But Quran 9:5 is also in the text: kill the polytheists wherever you find them, besiege them, ambush them. Quran 9:29 is also in the text: fight the people of the scripture until they pay the jizya in humiliation. Quran 4:34 is also in the text: regarding wives you fear arrogance from, admonish them, then abandon them in bed, then strike them. All four verses are in the same book. Citing one does not defeat the others. The Nazi regime passed the world’s most comprehensive animal welfare legislation in 1933. Hitler refused to eat meat and was genuinely appalled by hunting. You can agree with those laws. But we do not judge ideologies or religions by their best statements. We judge them by their culmination. Every religion must live and die by its culmination. The culmination of Judaism is the Torah; the text itself is the standard, not a human figure to be emulated. The culmination of Christianity is not the Bible but Jesus. The New Testament is about him, and the question that actually judges Christian practice is not what does the text say but what did Jesus do. The culmination of Islam is not the Quran. It is Muhammad. Not because the Quran is unimportant but because Muslims are praised for doing things Muhammad did that are not even in the Quran but recorded in the Hadiths. His life, not just his book, is the model. The Quran itself confirms this: “There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern” (33:21). The perfect example, for all creation, for all time. So 2:256 does not close the argument. It opens a different one. The question is not whether a good verse exists. The question is what the culmination of the religion actually did. Jesus confronted the power structures of his world directly. What did Muhammad do with the gender architecture of his? The Hadiths answer that without ambiguity. The Surah 33:59 incident answers that without ambiguity. You cannot resolve that Afghan girl’s cry with a verse her oppressors also know and have consciously set aside. They are not ignorant of 2:256. They have simply decided that the perfect example outranks it. And on their own theological terms, they are not wrong.

This is exactly why I laugh anytime someone blindly quotes those "fastest-growing religion" stats. They look at a chart or spreadsheet and pretend they’re measuring theological conviction, completely and pretentiously blind to the systemic violence keeping those numbers inflated. Anytime they are losing arguments here on X, they run to those statistics as some grand proof of spiritual superiority, and try to find cheap consolation. But what do those metrics really represent? Do they factor in the variable of raw terrorism? Do they account for the absolute, crushing impossibility of exit? Do they record the psychological toll of people who have to simulate faith every single day just to stay alive? Of course NO. The spreadsheets are completely blind to the bloodshed. I read this story and this man converted to Christianity, and the state didn’t just object, they sent him straight to a Terrorism Circuit Court. They tortured him, hanging him in a crucifixion position to force a renunciation. His entire "crime" was trying to legally update the religious designation on his national identity card. When the bureaucratic and physical price of leaving a faith is a terrorism charge, a life sentence, or an outright execution, then you are no longer dealing with a demographic statistic. You are really dealing with a hostage count. Stop using state terror to boast about popularity!