Many or most Musslems around the world , still believe or pretend that their religion is one of absolute tolerance , love and compassion . Most Jews think in those lines as well , and do believe that the main content of Hebraism is its energy and will toward morality and tolerance .
To most adherents of both faiths and their books , this view is still prevalent today as it was falsely throughout history .The world in its entirety is still bewildered and does not dare addressing and challenging these pretensions . Both , official countries and popular groups still timidly hide behind a wall of silence , and cannot openly discredit , nor show the non validity of both religions' claims .
Christianity , ranks just behind them two in acts of brutality and barbarism , albeit mostly committed hundreds of years ago , even literally one thousand years ago during the holy crusades . The former two are reviving the original historic sentiments of brutality and hegemony .
All three Monotheistic religions are surely interacted in more aspects than each would like to admit . The Hebraic school of thought and its offshoot Islam are far less Hellenized than Christianity , Islam more than the other two bases itself totally on faith , and places faith way above reason . Actually in all three , the man of faith is way above the man of reason , but Islam goes further in condemning and banning independent and free reasoning .
To put all this into perspective ; let's take the shrewd Christian miracle " That the son of God is born as man , dies for our sins , and rises from the dead only to come back one day for us ." For modern reasoning thinkers , it is foolishness . To the Jews on the other hand it is a blasphemous scandal with no proof what so ever . To Musslems all over it is total sacrilege and heresy . Jesus has to be a regular prophet like all others , and abide by religious accepted norms and rules . Otherwise he would be superior to all , playing messiah or son of God is not acceptable to all others , the Musslem prophet actually shut and limited God's will and power for ever by declaring himself the last prophet to be . Of course no reasoning here is permitted , only blind faith and total submission from all .
Looking at our world today , the whole world and more so the modern Middle-East , is back into mixing politics and governance with religion , reviving the old theological adage " of blind faith against reason " unfortunately the rest of the world is only timidly watching . Catholics against Protestants recently in northern Ireland , Russian reemerging Orthodoxism , Christians versus Musslems , and Shiia against Sunni in Lebanon , Sunni mortally against Shiites and vice-versa in Iraq , Syria , Yemen , Musslems against Copts in Egypt , Jews against Christians and Musslems in Palestine and Israel , Ukraine and the ex Yugoslavia , Burma and the Philippines , the list could go on and on ....
Institutionalising religions and religious beliefs as a way of life , whether in the Saudi example or the 6th century hocus pocus Islamic models , the Hebraic or Iranian instances , are all with no exception recipes for disaster , and a clear total bankruptcy of advanced culture , maturity and human tolerance . We cannot keep adamantly denying , that religions and their followers are behind most of the world ills , historically and in our present times . It will be very stupid indeed if a major third world war type starts because of religious fervor , fanaticism and blindness .
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