Christians, Jews, Muslims: You all started off so well; what happened?

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I know that you all have legitimate claims to blame others for your moral decline, but come on. Judaism evolved well to help the Jewish people with constantly being conquered and deported until they decided to laugh at Muhammod in the 600's and then that entire Israel fiasco in the 1940's.
Jesus was a great guy with great ideas; it's just too bad all his later followers decided to add their own agendas and screw up his philosophy.
Same goes for Muhammod. From what I've read, he was a great guy who only wanted the best for Arabic people who had never had a prophet speak to them in their own language. He recognized each area could have a different contact with God. Be it Jesus, Buddha, whatever. After he dies, all hell breaks loose.

Come on. You all have great religions if you would just listen to their original architects. You all preach peace, so why on earth have so many wars been fought in the name of religion for the past 4000 years?! Please explain or just stop

You can save the racist comments, I'm not black. It's just an avatar. I was trying to show a tan. My Scandanavian and English parents make me immune to "neeger" insults. Sorry to disappoint.

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Sorry on the spelling of "Muhammad." I'm sure he wouldn't mind. It's just a transliteration anyway.

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Answer 1

Peace my rear. Can you extract vanilla from an African violet? Didn't think so.

Answer 2

Some of the problem is the passage of time. Starting with the Jews, we are talking thousands of years here. Things change. We have ethical decisions to make that our ancestors could not even imagine, such as end-of-life decisions under 21st century medical technology.

Our work ethic had to be vastly different before there were any significant machines to do a share of the work. Education, even literacy, was a luxury few could afford. So very many things were different, including transportation, communications, just about everything.

The world was under-populated when the major religions were founded, and their morality thus centered around a very different concept of child-rearing, marriage and family than what is reasonable today. Back when better than half the children born did not survive their first year, lots of things were geared toward a woman getting pregnant as often as possible. My grandmother was one of 11 children, and that was great because they worked on the farm, helping their parents. Eleven children now would be a terrible burden for a family.

Our moral and ethical decisions have changed, and therefore our religion must either adapt or die out. Unfortunately, those that follow ancient texts generally become very rigid and do not adapt well to the modern world.

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This is the most sensible and thought provoking question of the week.
I ask the same too, but deep down I have the urge to say that followers had become too sullen headed, aggressive, overzealous and have deviated from the original good teachings. They have gotten themselves into big problems which they blatantly deny, so Plan B is just wishfully thinking Jesus will return to earth once again to settle all the mess.
It's really foolish, as this kind of things only happen on a movie script.
Wake up guys! Don't stay in slumberland.

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Oh Abrahamaic faiths.....

Too be honest. All those faiths didnt start off well.

Jesus was viewed as a power hungry zealot

Moses may have been a half Egyptian Jew

The first Muslims started on Jewish tribes before conquering Mecca.

Anyways people are violent, misogynist, evil and other terrible things. Dont blame the founders, blame the followers

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Rev Kip - The moon God, WTF? and you're a non secular chief? Explains plenty appropriate to the attitude of a lot of Christians obtainable... *Shakes Head* Do you no longer understand that Muslims (and a lot of Jews) hint the origins of Islam returned to the 1st toddler of Abraham, who God additionally stated might the be the daddy of an excellent people? So do you carry it against Jesus that his mom and dad weren't christian? on account that Mohammed based the religion, of direction he became born right into a diverse one. and those loopy reference you made appropriate to the pagan daughters he allegedly worshiped, you are able to desire to benefit slightly extra. Mohommed truly denouced all scripture on the subject of them as "The Satanic Verses" and stated such ideals had no place in a monotheistic relgion. in any case, directly to answering the question. submit to in innovations, I talk of the wider Christian attitude, and not the truly faith itself which preaches tolerance of others... Christianity has on no account loved different religions. to contain Judaism. all people remember the Inquisition? Or the undeniable fact that Pope John Paul II admitted that the church bore some duty for the holocaust using fact of that is intolerence of Jews? Ever heard the age outdated tale that we use the blood of a christian harmless to make our passover matzah? Christians pick to piggy returned off of our faith so they have a love hate courting with us, yet average can no longer denounce us using fact they did borrow our God and not any opposite direction around. The immediately out hate for Muslims comes from the undeniable fact that whilst Jews only could desire to get with this equipment, Islam became shaped after the loss of life and hoopla of Jesus. we don't pick to grandfather clause him in, yet they outright rejected him. Oh, that and Christians seem an intollerant lot because it extremely is (plenty to Jesus's chagrin, i'm optimistic).

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1st lit me correct a statement someone made. Christians do not belive god came to earth in the form of Jesus Chist. he sent Jesus ( his only SON ) here to teach and lead us to him. he didn't send him here to die for our sins, J. C. did that on his own and God was a little teed off about it too.
I think most of us beleve in the same god we are just tought to worship him in diffrent ways.
it is said God created us in his image, but he didn't make us perfect, he didn't give us his mind. he gave us our own mind, to make our own desisions, even if they may be wrong.
and human nature being what it is we will never agree on every thing. and human nature being what it is I will always think my way is right and yours stinks, and I may be willing to kill you ya family and anybody around ya to prove it. although I don't think my God would approve of that mathod. but that's just the nature of man kind. like it or not.

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The Christian Hate Muhammed while Muslims love both of them that is why you find only Muslims writing Jesus(peace be upon him).

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ah,yes, the old "How many wars" game.

Stalin was neither Christian nor Jew nor Muslim, yet he murdered thirty million of his own people.
Hitler started a war which cost as many as fifty million lives. Chairman Mao is alleged to have caused one hundred million to be killed.
Why don't you look at your own mental decline.

Answer 9

One doesn't have to have a superstitious religion in order to believe in God. Just pray at home. Forget the unnecessary religion.

Answer 10

Well said, really nice ideally. But people don't want peace, they want power and humans are running the place right now so it's power that prevails and it's aftermaths.

Answer 11

I think we've just forgotten where we came from - we've fallen far from our roots. And that is why we have had little success in making peace.