reply to post by jeddun
Watching the religious play with their action figures would be cute, if they weren't adults with a high propensity to violence.
You, good sir, display a not-at-all-surprising lack of knowledge about either Islam or your own religion, whichever of the other two you buy into.
Let's start from the top. If you don't mind, I'll presume christianity on your part, as most jews I've met tend to be better-informed about this
stuff.
they subscribe to 2 TOTALLY different Gods.
Well, no. The jewish version of god, and the Muslim version of god, are
extremely similar. There's a reason for this, which I'll get to in a
bit. It is in fact the christian god that stands out of the group as the oddball. Jews and Muslims hold that god is a singular, usually distant
entity. Christians believe that god is made of three parts that can have sex with women, give birth to itself and walk as a person, and then die only
to come back. The christian god bears more resemblance to the Roman imperial deities (Which Caesars are god? All of them. Which gods are Caesars? Just
the one in charge right now) than to the original Jewish god. Or perhaps he has more in common with
Hindu chief Gods, Vishnu and Shiva
Ever had a religious discussion with Hindus? Quite a large number of them are monotheists. You see, all those myriad gods, are simply extensions of
the one god, Brahma. Think of them as the father / son / holy ghost trinity, only with a little more variety to the divisions of god.
The God of the Bible is one of LOVE,. Allah has NO emotional feeling toward Man.
you've actually got that one backwards. Crack open the bible and the Koran, compare 'em. You'll find that the biblical god is a gigantic prick,
even to the people he really, really likes (Seriously? Job, Lot, Moses? Those poor dudes were God's favorites and look what he did to 'em). In the
Koran however, Allah is, in fact presented as an infinitely loving, though distant force. Allah doesn't smite, doesn't turn people into salt, and so
far as I can tell, never massacred the firstborn of a nation.
And he's never sent bears to eat small children, which is kind of a negative on Allah's part... Because if I could, I would totally sic some
grizzlies on the noisy neighbor brats...
Ahem.
Mohammed worked in professions that brought him in contact with MANY Jews and Christians,
Jews, actually. Christians didn't have much of a presence outside of Alexandria really. Most of what we look at today as the middle east was in fact
ruled by primarily Jewish kingdoms at the time. Remember where I said there's good reasons Allah and YHWH are so similar? Here's that reason.
Mohammed was Jewish. it's clear that his family believed in one god, only one god, was wealthy and powerful, and his religion is almost straight out
of the Torah. This guy couldn't have been any more Jewish if he were eating salmon and bitching about his goy son-in-law (but if there had been
salmon in the desert, you totally know he woulda been doing that, too!)
No different that Mormonism or any other fabricated 'Cult' of personality. The religion is an APOSTATE faith and holds zero creedance as a
TRUE faith.....
You mean like christianity?
it's really sad and i am a firm believer that the world would be a MUCH better place without this religion or its evil, sick
influence.
I could say that just as easily about monotheism in general, since whenever someone's come up with the idea, lots of people end up dead. The
Aten-worshipping Egyptians had the priests and followers of other gods executed. The jews slaughtered their way through the middle east. The
christians killed off lots and lots of people in Europe. Then the Muslims did in most of the local faiths. Then Jews, Muslims, and Christians started
their constant slapfighting. hell, over in India, when they invented Buddhism, the early Buddhists tried to eradicate the Hindus, got driven out, and
started killing animists in Tibet and Hindus in Indochina. And when the Aztecs and Inca played around with singular deity worship, they simply
enslaved and sacrificed entire nations.
So it seems to me that monotheism is like a psychological defect more than anything, akin to the sort of people who put kittens in microwaves.
Not that polytheists were a whole lot better. They just kicked the kitten, though, they didn't get all sadistically creative about it...
One thing these 'people' are taught by their 'Imams" is that the western world (us) are very tolerant and generous
Nice how you put people in quote marks. Surely the sign of a stable, humanitarian mind you've got there, mr. "My God is LURRRRRRVE!". And two
things. One, Imams are a shia thing. You find 'em here and there, but they're no big whup. And two... Heh. really? They teach about the awesomeness
of hte west, do they? You am from bizzaro-world? Beauty are ugly and Middle East are friend?
