Is Islam the darker side of humanity and Catholicism the brighter side of humanity?

Question

Or is it the opposite? Like the sun rises to the east, sets in the west? Like positive and negative terminals, like good and bad, right and wrong, strong and weak?

Answer 1

As a short answer to your question ..Yes.

But not because of the religion. It is due to the way the the religion is being used.

The Muslim religion has flaws like any other religion but could still be a good moral compass for a person to guide his life.
The problem is that it is being used to brainwash entire countries, and is being used as a form of government.
(If you recall, the christian religion was once used as a form of government, they called it 'the dark ages')

Ignorance and lack of education allow people to be controlled by religions, and thus the leaders determine the course of actions for the entire country. Evil leaders profit from the misery of the masses and create wars in the name of God. In reality the religion itself is interchangeable, they could use the christian bible to rule the people for the same purpose.

Islam will someday be seen as a holy religion, but the followers must stand up against the evil that is inside of their own ranks.
The people must be given a choice to believe or not.
And the government must be controlled by the 'rule of law', not the rule of the church.

Answer 2

My mother told me regularly as long as she lived and she lived a long life, "You will find good and bad in all kinds."
The difference between East and West is not so much one is good and the other bad but that in the West we are open and can face our mistakes and correct them. You can be sure that the Catholic Priests (or anybody else in the West like the US Congress) will not be hiding child molesters ever again. Of course, people will discover some new crisis to get all hot and bothered over.
Muslims, on the other hand, are still living in the 7th century.
Muslims need to respect human rights, establish the protections of law in their countries, condemn the use of violence for the sake of religion, and respect free speech. No one should be murdered for what they say.

Answer 3

Hi Sandy -

Your question asks one to compare Islam, a religion of many sects, to one sect of Chrstianity, i.e. Catholicism.

The many Islamic sects (of which the Sunni, Shiites and Kurds are only a few) are VERY different from one another (so different, in fact, that they regularly slaughter each other over their religious differences! Which, in a nutshell, is the current situation in Iraq.)

So you need to pick one Islamic sect, say Sunniism, to compare to Catholicism.

But the Sunni will pick his beliefs as "right and sunny", as will the Catholic. So who's to judge?

In effect, both sides claim that "My God is a more loving God than yours, and if you don't agree, my God has ordered me to kill you!"

The justification for this ridiculous position, held by both sides, is the Bible, as interpreted by the Pope in the case of the Catholic, and the Koran, as interpreted by the Ayatollah, in the case of the Sunni.

Both the Bible and the Koran have to be "interpreted" by each sect, because both contain conflicting guidance. Hence, the many different sects in both Christianity and Islam!

So who's right?

Neither one, in my humble opinion. History records more slaughter in the name of religion (all religions are guilty!) than any other cause, including greed (oil, salt, water, you name it; wars have been fought over it!).

Life often doesn't have simple right or wrong, black or white, answers!

Good question -

CQ

Answer 4

i'm in basic terms allowed to p.c.. one?! The darkest area is the uniquely human ability to dress an action inspired via bare self-activity interior the apparel of a controversy that asserts to be real for each individual. i think that is called "ideology", and that is risky. A much less dark area, by way of fact it does not tend to allure to hundreds of thousands of fellow-visitors, is rank criminal activity of the variety displayed those days in Hartford, Connecticut. i think that rape-homicide is a criminal offense unique to the human species.

Answer 5

I'd say not.

Both faiths worship the same god and preach that devotees should follow a life of peace and tolerance.

This question makes a lot of assumptions that just a little considered thought would easily disprove.

Answer 6

neither.

I mean its not like everything is all rosy on the catholic side...*cough*crusades*cough*

maybe its a developing religion thing... I mean some parts of islam have their violent thing "now", Christians had the crusades few hundred years ago, or whatever, Judaism had their violence and conquering like a few thousand years ago...

nobody is really completely innocent, if you look at it from the greater scheme of things.

Answer 7

Christ is the brighter side, not Islam or Catholicism.

Answer 8

Religion promotes the darker side of humanity.

Answer 9

I can't speak for Catholicism, but Islam worships ONE, and ONLY ONE God, and does not believe in centralized power or intermediaries between humans and God... :)

Answer 10

No way!

And it is not a geographical issue!

But you could say that extremists (on both sides!!) are the the darkest side of humanity!