[maxharris]

None of the advances you speak of in this "restoration" are essential. And they are all impossible to sustain culturally without discarding fundamental religious beliefs, such as a focus on the afterlife, and the idea that morality has its basis in faith rather than reason.

[maxharris]

Hey @dalke, what is your reply to the above?

[dalke]

I thought it was clear. I question the assertion for a special need for Muslim people to reform when basically all religions, under Ali's argument, are death cults.

Thus, it's irrelevant to the rather difficult question posed by the OP. Moreover, it stinks of victim blaming because the short version seems to be 'if you weren't Muslim you wouldn't have these problems.'