I'm a perennialist, so thanks for demonstrating that I'm right, and you are relatively ignorant in the area of comparative religion. Remarkably, however, you did stumble blindly into labeling me accurately because Christ was a perennialist too. He travelled during the years that aren't accounted for in the "canonical" (fiat) Gospels. As someone who doesn't cuck themselves out to any single religious tradition, I do not accept the "authority" of dudes in clean robes and weird fuckin hats who walked the earth 300 years after Christ did. I'm going to read the non-canonical Gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita...all of it...and fuck anyone who tries to stop me. The sword is metaphorical. I thought you were an imam? Do I have to teach you that Christ spoke in parables and allegory? He did that because he practiced what he preached: the Golden Rule. He spoke using language and concepts that could be understood by the people to whom he was speaking. As a perennialist and spiritual polyglot, that's what I do. I have proof of work on my side but those who remain willfully ignorant do not. This is evident if any of us attempts to speak any particular "spiritual language" in front of anyone else who speaks that same spiritual language. If you don't speak French and you try to fake it in front of me, I'm going to be able to call you out, just as if I try to fake the ability to speak Arabic in front of my best friend's Palestinian father, he's going to call me out. Speak for yourself and everyone who came before me. I will do exactly that, because I can and they didn't. Nobody ever flew before the Wright brothers. We didn't have good money before Satoshi. People have done the impossible many times throughout history, thus proving wrong those who thought the possible was impossible.