Originally Posted by
Empire
:/ Every muslim believes in the day of judgement, but knows nothing about it.
Humankind as a whole believes in Armageddon, if in some vague sense. It's been there forever*(most religions have it) and especially with cinema now, the belief of human extinction being possible isn't that rare.
(Robotic sentience is my bet)
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But the Islamic Judgement day is only meant to scare people. It's the same old "join my religion or you could get judged!"
As for it being made up:
Well lets see............ If Islam doesn't tell when it will happen or even what will happen(outside of vague "people will be judged"), isn't that basically made up?
If I said "one day people will be judged by god and all the nonbelievers will go to hell", that has the same validity as the Islamic prophecy.
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In summary:
Muslims don't actually believe in there prophecy more than the average human believes in the apocalypse. Putting "islamic" before apocalypse doesn't make it any more valid than any other delusional story.