Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Muhammad

Muhammad’s in the writings in the book are surprisingly familiar to me. They speak almost exactly of what Christian books and the Bible for that matter speak of. The ideas of God and what He “is” and “is not” are much the same. I could have sworn I was reading something out of the New Testament if I had no prior knowledge that the passage was Muhammad. I can see where the Islamic religion has its roots in Judaism and the Old Testament. The idea of the Islamic religion being based off of peace and love is definitely true however I think that like all religions somewhere along the line the religions main ideas get lost in translation. Just as this happened for Christianity with the Crusades and there is more I know… Whoever after reading what I did I don’t think like most about the religion in the idea that it is all bad. I do believe that there are extremists sects of Islam that miss Muhammad’s point and give the religion a bad name.

1 comment:

  1. I totally agree with you Ryan because I also felt to be reading right out of the Bible. Which helped me also see interconnected all these religions really are. The root system seems to have the very similar rich soil. Peace and Love the basis of several faiths. Where I believe some experience JOY if done faithfully and other's might not experience JOY because of the obstacles that trip them up.

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