I reckon (if he actually existed) that he had some weird superstition that's why he tried to put out that all jet black dogs were the devil.
I do think it shows the problem with a lot of religions in general though in my opinion. A lot of people it seems tend to go overboard with application of certain 'scriptures' which is how we end up with extremism on all sides. I was merely under the impression that owning a dog that wasn't for a specific purpose ie herding was frowned upon and causes them to loose their mythological brownie points as a result? Something to do with its saliva and mouth? That being said I'll happily stand corrected!! I'm no expert in religion if anything i'd probably class myself more as an apatheist haha?
All that is kind of irrelevant though as my original point was less about specific religious 'teachings' and more about my annoyance to anyone who randomly brandishes the "racist" card due to their own ignorance. It's in the same vein as women who falsely cry rape and should be stamped out :@ (that and i was bored at work :grief:
Oh I can empathize with you, that word has no meaning to me anymore. Its like calling me a crayon or a lobster.
There are no reports of anything that links to the dogs saliva. This is usually what followers claim who have no idea why they have this hatred for dogs. As mentioned, the only claim is that angels wont appear where a dog lays. Bring this into the modern day and we see carts full of dogs being stolen from the streets, slaughtered and set on fire.
Continue to question and criticize any religion you wish to. You'll be called a bigot, a racist and a xenophobe but at least you'll be based.
P.s - the link with black dogs and black in general is that black is evil. Those who go to hell (according to Islam) have their faces painted black and those going to heaven have theirs painted white.
Muhammad referred to a black man as a "raisin" and propelled the Arab slave trade.