" In sharp contrast to his medical research, Razi’s ventures into religion earned him nothing but abuse.63 The very names of Razi’s three treatises on religion say it all: The Prophets’ Fraudulent Tricks; The Stratagems of Those Who Claim to Be Prophets; and On the Refutation of Revealed Religions. Razi did not mince words: If the people of [a given] religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed. "
― , Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
![quote : In sharp contrast to his medical research, Razi’s ventures into religion earned him nothing but abuse.63 The very names of Razi’s three treatises on religion say it all: The Prophets’ Fraudulent Tricks; The Stratagems of Those Who Claim to Be Prophets; and On the Refutation of Revealed Religions. Razi did not mince words: If the people of [a given] religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.](/image/2887558.jpg)