Hangdawg writes:
Fundamentalist Muslims clearly do not believe they are the same God and believe Allah is one. They denounce the trinity. They do not believe Christ was God and believe killing all Christians and Jews is Allah's will. They believe America and Western culture is the Great Satan. Of course not all Muslims are this extreme and many do believe they are the same God. Just like Christians and Jews many ignore the parts of their holy book that they do not like or simply tone it down to their liking in their interpretation.
Dawg, it has been my impression that each faith has issues.
1) In the West, if Christianity were to be strictly followed, we would use our wealth to evangelize and embrace the world rather than bombing it. Muslims see our faith and our actions as a contradiction. We claim to know God and are short of a theocracy yet we are in practice idolators and worshippers of materialism and human image. That is the bad side: We are human and we also have good qualities.
2) Judaism was historically concluded in unbelief by rejecting the Messiah the first time. This also was a result of sticking to fundamental written truth and ignoring the Living Truth who begged them to lay down their dogmatic ideology and embrace Him.
3) Islam has the rituialism and the good works mentality instilled within them, yet they also struggle with human rights and oppression issues on a global scale. They do not want to embrace Western idolatry commercialism. They simply do not want a McDonalds on every corner in Saudi Arabia!
Odd and yet profound how the birth of the three great faiths sprang from a similar root. The entire scenario will be solved eventually.
Either everyone will finally learn to lay down their preconceived human fundamentals and embrace a living God or more likely society will attempt to abolish religion and human nature will rear its ugly sterile head one last time.
Yes, humanists, I believe that we will never leave our dogma behind.
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