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To: CCWoody
Except that you both have beliefs that your church claims are good enough to get to heaven. Seems like you have a lot in common with Muslims!

This assertion is meaningless. There is more divergency then there will ever be commonality. Moroever, Islam was based on Christian and Jewish notions and yet fundamentally is different. The Jihad is central to Islam for example.It was for 13 centuries or so and still is in many Islamic groups as can plainly be seen. The Jihad has nothing in common with Christian principles nor with principles developed in Judaism down through the centuries.

Moreover, the assertion "Muslims love Jesus as much as Christians" is wholly a patronizing notion. In point of fact, Islam nearly wiped out Eastern Christianity. If Islam loved Christ so much it wouldn't have destroyed whole Christian communities. It wouldn't have dhimmiized and oppressed Christians for centuries. It wouldn't have kidnapped Christian children, and made them Islamic killers as were the Janissaries. It wouldn't have enslaved Christians in Asia Minor, Spain, the Balkans, etc. Islam has never been good for Christianity and it's insulting to suggest any kind of convergence or agreement except in the most oblique ways.

106 posted on 12/18/2001 8:03:03 PM PST by Lent
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To: Lent
This assertion is meaningless.

Did you read post #92?

172 posted on 12/19/2001 5:31:08 AM PST by CCWoody
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