#christianity vs islam

[lightedpath]

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds.

The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Master of the Day of Judgment.

You alone we worship, and You alone we ask for help.

Guide us on the Straight Path,

the path of those who have received Your grace; not the path of those who have brought down wrath upon themselves, nor of those who have gone astray.

[kanisa-maghrebia]

Many Muslims around the world, Think they hold a deep respect for Jesus (Isa) as one of God’s greatest prophets. The Quran honors Him with remarkable titles Messiah, Word of God, Spirit from Him and affirms His miraculous birth and powerful works. But have you ever wondered what Jesus Himself said about His true identity?

[phoenixyfriend]

Answer, then open up the readmore.

AKA: Proselytizing, or Forgiveness? Evangelism, or Acceptance?

Part of what inspired this is that I saw a post about Catholicism.

The other reason was that someone was playing a song in the subway station and I mistook it for Kanye (it wasn't), and I got to thinking in conjunction about how many self-identified Christians are very ready to hold up people who TALK about Jesus and following the Bible (Kanye, Trump, various Republicans), even when those people seem to, in my uneducated opinion, not actually follow the teachings of the man himself. There is no 'love thy neighbor' in Trump's rhetoric, no loving and honoring of the wife by

So do you support the man who speaks of Jesus as his guide and spreads his name on those who don't want it, but is cruel in pursuit of spreading the Word… or do you support the man who speaks of Jesus as his guide that others have no duty towards, and practices kindness even when it pushed people away from the word of God as understood by the Gospel?

Basically... do you prioritize Proselytism to such a degree that you are willing to platform those who speak of Jesus, even when they are monsters like none other? Are you ready to commit crimes that Jesus told you not to in pursuit of spreading His name?

I love a hornet's nest.

[former-leftist-jew]

Christianity and Islam both say, "Only those who follow our religion go to The Good Place after Death; the rest of you sods will burn and suffer forever in The Bad Place as Punishment for not following OUR direct dogma."

Yet, it's JEWS who supposedly WE'RE the Special Chosen Few?

[menlove]

like I think if u look at two of the most powerful and influencial religions in the world rn (christianity and islam) and come away with "one of these is the Good Moral Religion and one of these is the Oppressive Evil Religion" in either direction u have fundamentally failed to understand the world and also the ways in which religion can be used both as a weapon to beat other people with and also a tool of comfort & community

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"I don't agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... to me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds." -- Taslima Nasrin

[aregularhuman]

WAIT TILL YALL HEAR ABOUT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH- my favourite fact abt Russia is that the only reason they’re orthodox is bc in 988 knaz Vladimir deemed orthodox churches more beautiful than catholic (and also political reasons)

One of my favorite things about the difference between Protestant denominations and Catholicism is that Protestants made their whole thing being So Fucking Boring(tm) and normal that if you were raised around Protestants with little to no connection to the Catholic Church when you find out about all the saints and rituals and bones and shit it genuinely comes off as a little like...pagan isn't the right word exactly but you know what I mean? Like for my entire life good Christians sat on folding chairs in a beige basement eating shitty donuts from Albertsons and told me liking Pokemon and Halloween made me a sinner and then I go to see an old Catholic church and there's just like. A fucking ancient corpse in the room?? That everyone is praying over??? Like????? And THIS is actually the religion all the "Pokemon normalizes devil worship" guys originally came from several hundred years ago??????

It's wild okay. It's just wild.

[vladhungrygen]

11 Ways Islam and Christianity Are Different

Whether you are a Muslim seeking to understand Christian beliefs, or a Christian curious about the Islamic faith, this will give you a basic understanding of the worldview of both religions. Islam began in 610 AD with Prophet Muhammad’s first revelation from Angel Gabriel. Today, there are over 2 billion Muslims globally, making Islam the second-largest religion behind Christianity. The Islamic…

[kanisa-maghrebia]

Christianity vs Islam: Which Faith Offers Hope?

[owenthetokencishet]

From now on every time I see somebody use the term "judeo-christian" I'm shoving this image in their face

Their savage Asiatic AI-operated drones vs our benevolent Judeo-Christian AI-operated drones

[ao-fc]

Judeo-Christianity vs. Islam

[readfull]

What is the Quran? Understanding The Quran

What is the Quran? Understanding The Quran. The Quran is a book that is viewed in a distorted way by many people. But when you read this post, you will understand what really the Quran is. No matter whether you are a Christian, Jew, or adherent of any other religion, understanding the Quran will undoubtedly bring great benefits to you. The Quran is the divine book that Muslims believe in.…

[filmizle48]

Christianity vs Islam Country Comparison (2023)

[fairuzfan]

If Islam is so fantastic why do muslims always flee to Christian countries? Why not saudy? Because christians lands are free, tolerant and open. Funny how EVERYBODY in the middle east hates palestinians.. only European lefties think they are the good guys..

India: Muslim vs hindu

Israel: Muslim vs Jews

Myanmar: Muslim vs Buddhist

China: Muslim vs atheist

Europe: Muslim ve Christians

*Aaand when they cant find other religions in their country, they start to fight among themselves

Arabia: Muslims (sunni) vs Muslims (shia)

this is the funniest ask ive ever received

Anyways Palestinian Christians were run out of Palestine because of the Zionist Occupation (and they're still there but facing hardships as a result of apartheid).

But sure its cuz Muslims are so violent and disgusting /sarcasm

Eid Mubarak, I hope you change for the better random islamophobic anon!

[a-s-fischer]

That friend on another site that I told you about a while ago said that the feminists who first started worshiping Lilith did blame Western religious systems in general for sexism, but they didn't have any ill will towards Jews specifically. Are you willing to buy that?

I am very willing to say that the first 20th century feminists to bring Lilith into the conversation were not being antisemitic, because those feminists were Jewish. Their work is confronting, nuanced, and interesting. I don't always agree with their conclusions, but I certainly wouldn't call this examination of the place of Lilith in Jewish thought antisemitic or unwarrented.

However, almost immediately, once Gentile feminists (and specifically Gentile feminists of a Christian cultural background) got their hands on Lilith, it was a different story, and one that requires an examination of what is meant by "Western religions".

"Western religions" are contrasted with "Eastern religions", or more tellingly "Eastern Spirituality", a framing which posits two diametrically opposed worldviews and approaches to spirituality. This framing by its nature flattens such disparate traditions as Zoroastrianism and Shintoism, and applies what might be termed an orientalizing lens. It is, in other words, a bad model which expresses the biases and assumptions of its proponants, and leads to misunderstanding and bad scholarship, and also kind of racist. It was also a popular model in the mid 20th century.

It's important to note here that feminist spirituality and neo-Goddess worship were becoming a thing at exactly the time when a Western curiosity about "Eastern Spirituality" was hitting the mainstream. And because of a complicated stew of historical and cultural factors, almost all of these Western spiritual seekers approached "Eastern Spirituality" not as disparate living traditions, which are part of their own cultural contexts, and which are the traditions and worldviews of actual societies, which, as human societies, are far from perfect examples of enlightenment, but instead approached "Eastern Spirituality" as a single entity which could be stripped of context and turned into something to be consumed by a western audience, and also as the antidote to a spiritually bankrupt western capitalistic society. These Eastern teachings are just soooo enlightened, maaaan. This very much informed the framework of Western vs Eastern religions.

As for Western religions, this is a category I often see expressed in slightly different ways. I've neen this grouping called "Western religions" or even "Western religion", or Abrahamic religions (by which the speaker typically means the Abrahamic religions they have heard of, given that most don't seem to realize that there are in fact quite a few Abrahamic religions, not just Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) or sometimes it's monotheism or the monotheistic religions. These are all the same group, but the rhetorical focus is slightly different. Western religions are contrasted with Eastern religions or sometimes "non-Western religions,", monotheism with polytheism, and the Abrahamic religions with everything else. And a most cases, which goes up to nearly all cases where a value judgment is being made, what the person doing the grouping really means is "Christianity and the religions I assume are basically just Christianity." It's a framework that makes a lot of incorrect assumptions about what Judaism is, and assumes that anything the speaker objects to in Christianity is present in, and ultimately comes from Judaism. It's also a framing that by contrast assumes that these things which are bad about "Western religions" or "monotheism" are not broadly present in other religions, and are unique to Judaism and its descendents.

That last consideration is extremely important, because it's hard to argue that "Western religions" are responsible for x bad thing, when that bad thing is far from exculsively found in "Western religions" Most polytheistic traditions currently and historically have practiced some form of patriarchy. Worship of powerful goddesses does not seem to make these societies less oppressive for human women. Another popular argument I see is that monotheism brought religious intolerance into the world, but again, the idea that polytheistic societies are inherently religiously tolerant, and we have no evidence of religious persecution until monotheism came on the scene, is a myth. It's also with seeing these other terms for the same goup, and the comparisons people are using this grouping to make, that it becomes possible to understand why Hellenistic or Norse paganism, for example, are not part of the umbrella of "Western religions."

It's important to note here that it's a standard part of the Christian intellectual tradition that goes back almost to the creation of Christianity, that all the good parts of Christianity are from Jesus, and are "True Christianity" and all the bad parts are Jewish things that were insufficiently purged. Judaism-and-the-Jews-as-responsible-for-all-of-Christianity's-flaws is an old antisemitic trope, and one which has gained purchase among critics of Christianity globally.

The 20th century feminists who pioneered so-called feminist spirituality and neo-pagan Goddess worship latched onto an anthropological theory popular in the 19th century, that before the rise of patriarchy, societies went through a matriarchal, fertility, focused goddess worshipping phase. It's really really important to note here that by the time 20th century feminists got their hands on this idea, it had been already widely discredited. Anthropologists and archeologists no longer took it seriously, because after a certain point, it became really obvious that it did not fit the evidence.

Also in its original formulation it was really racist, as almost all anthropological theories popular in the 19th century were. See, the original idea was that societies progressed through stages, and that fertility focused matriarchal goddess worship was an early primitive phase, that societies passed through on their way to "higher civilization". The best and most civilized societies were (obviously) 19th century Western European ones, so societies closest to that were further along and more advanced, while societies further from that could be grouped according to which "stage" they reached.

20th feminists took this debunked, discredited formulation and flipped it on its head. Instead of matriarchal fertility-focused goddess worship being a phase societies passed through on their way to higher (patriarchal) forms of civilization, it was actually the natural state of humanity that we had fallen from, and needed to reclaim. It became a feminist Eden.

And who was the serpent in this feminist Eden, offering the fruit of the tree of patriarchy? Why, it was those first monotheists, the Ur-Abrahamic* religion, Judaism.

It's likely that a lot of the people reading this saying, hey, you are going way too far and reading way too much into this. Christianity is included in "Western religions", and nobody is being singled out, and that's a whole lot of well-meaning and progressive people that you are accusing of deliberate antisemitism. To which I say, I'm not actually accusing anyone of deliberate antisemitism here. I am saying that in a society where antisemitic tropes are a bulwark of the intellectual tradition, it's easy to accidentally and unconciously incorporate those tropes and narratives into any new, or not so new, ideas. As for whether Judaism was singled out, the fact that all these gentile feminists picked Lilith, a figure not present in Christianity, or Islam, but only in Judaism, shows who, consciously or not, they were holding responsible for patriarchy in "Western religions".

*According to the Torah, Abraham came from the city of Ur. This is a joke. I am very funny. Please take this opportunity to chuckle in a sensible and dignified manner.