Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship the

 

The second point is, despite such religious disagreements between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, all three religions worship the same God. Ever hear the saying 'opposites attract'? Well, if opposites attract, then similarities detract. Jews, Christians, and Muslims are so similar that they antagonize and fear each other because each knows their own agenda and thereby believe they know the other party's agenda, whose ideas and policies they believe they share.

 

Now this is definately not specific to these three religious communities, but is experienced by all human beings in all areas. I just wanted to point out the futility of criticizing Muslims and Christians when one's own religion shares many of the qualities of the religion they choose to criticize.

 

 

 

Yes I believe that as well that there is no bad Christianity, Islam, etc... people find excuses in religion to comit horrid acts. However, many times there are individuals who are misguided, but also deeply are convicted that their actions are part, or in line with their religious perscriptions. So discussing that is what we are trying to do not bash any religion.

 

 

 

Try looking at a white light thru a prism. You get all sorts of different colours but they all come from the same source.

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In the United States, there is a strong (disputed) separation of church and state. Public schools, a state institution, are not allowed to teach about religion. I think that is poor judgement on our part. An unbiased approach to learning about the world religions several times throughout public schooling would help enlighten the populance to understanding. I know of many pious, intelligent, kind Christians who think that the muslim god (known as Allah) is some sort of heathen god or the devil. What they don't know is that Arabic Christians also call God Allah. Yahweh and Allah are really just Jewish and Muslim terms related to the heritage of each of the religions, not the religion itself. This sort of lack of understanding is really old too, I remember 'turn back the infidel(non-believer) from the Crusades and 'heretic' in Europe.

 

On that last note, its really ironic that the Pope felt like he had to keep the Holy Land in the hands of the 'believers' when really, the Holy Land has always been in the hands of believers, whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim. (unless, of course, you count the ancient empires)