"Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry...invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children- religion poisons everything."
-Christopher Hitchens
Byzantine sources believed Arabs-Muslims worshiped the morning star Aphrodite.
“They also pray to the star of Aphrodite, which they call Kubar, and they cry out in their prayer thus: ‘Alla wa Kubar,’ which means ‘God and Aphrodite.’”