More in Common Than Not

[Hard_Rom]

https://www.quora.com/Other-than-th...brahamic-religions-agree-on/answer/James-Boll

Over all, Christianity and Islam are the most synchronized, but all three have a fair amount of common ground.

They all generally agree that:
•they ought to accept the parts of each others scriptural canons that corroborate their own.
•Abraham, Moses, David, and other Hebrews were holy men, or prophets of God.
•their respective faith has its origins in Abraham the patriarch.
•they worship the same God.
•God is a unified being, though Christian deviates in nuance.
•Jesus existed, and was a first century Palestinian Jewish man.
•God created the world and everything in it, having similar creation myths with slight variations.
•God creates using his word, in some capacity.
•creation was made good, and God loves it greatly.
•all mankind is of one human family.
•angels and demons exist, to varying degrees, with varying definitions and descriptions, at least traditionally.
•Satan, by some name, is the big bad wolf of the story.
•the Satan fell from the grace of God.
•God has made man to be higher than the angels.
•some part of their accepted scriptural canon is inspired by God.
•the names and titles of God are holy and should be venerated.
•there is some form of afterlife, though this afterlife has fluctuated to varying degrees throughout history, and evolved in description and function.
•God has performed miracles through the prophets.
•God has spoken through prophets.
•God can, and does, answer prayers.
•God has set aside days of the year to be celebrated with joy and festivities.
•God has declared various spiritual disciplines to be good for the individual, such as fasting, prayer, worship, and exemplary living.
•God can, and does, forgive those who repent of their sins.

Judaism and Christianity generally agree that:
•they ought to accept the Old Testament as canonical, to varying degrees, including the deuter-canon.
•they have nearly identical history myths that are held to varying degrees of credibility.
• interpretive traditions ought to be positively appreciated.
•we celebrate and worship God in similar ways.
•God established a sacrificial system, which has fluctuated to varying degrees throughout history varies with geography and denomination.

Judaism and Islam generally agree that:
•God is entirely one, and the doctrine of the trinity is false.
•pigs are not to be eaten.

Christianity and Islam generally agree that:
•Jesus was miraculously conceived, and born of the virgin Mary.
•Mary is the most blessed woman to have ever lived.
•Mary was human, and not divine.
•Mary and Jesus were both perfect, immaculately conceived, and preserved from the touch of sin.
•Mary ought to be venerated, to varying degrees in intensity that changes with geography and history.
•God has allowed some apparitions of Mary, such as the 2oth century apparition of Zeitoun in Cairo, Egypt, which was seen by Muslims and Christians alike.
•Mary's mother was Anne, and that her father was Joachim.
•Mary was dedicated to the temple to serve God.
•Mary was assumed into heaven at the end of her life.
•Jesus was the messiah of the Jewish people.
•Jesus was at least fully human.
•Jesus is the word of God, though not with the same connotations.
•the spirit of God proceeds from Jesus.
• Jesus was assumed, or ascended, into heaven.
•Jesus is still alive in heaven.
•in the last day, Jesus will return in glory to judge the living and the dead with the power of God.

 

[Hypoxia]

But all three Abrahamic faiths are based on uncorroborated myths.

* Genesis contains three creation myths, one each Assyrian, Egyptian, and Levantine; distinct deities are blended into one. That's how myths evolve.

* Noah's ark? Kewl story, bro. Evidence of a worldwide Noachian flood? Nope.

* The head of Hebrew University's Archaeology department says that NO phyisical or documentary evidence has been found backing-up the Exodus myth. That shoots the shit out of Israel's claim to the land. If those Seven Plagues and Pharoah's-Army-Got-Drownded incident had occurred, other states would have noticed, and reacted. If a large population took years to reach Palestine, they'd have left debris. None has been found.

* No Roman or other records mention Yeshua bir Miriam aka Jesus. Josephus mentioned John the Baptist and zillions of other tinhorn prophets (whom he despises) but said nothing of Jesus. Nobody else corroborates most gospel accounts either. Much of the Jesus story is stuff that just never happened.

* The Jesus story is obviously based on earlier god-spawn and savior myths. Nothing original there.

* It's hard to have Jesus of Nazareth if Nazareth didn't exist. No classical records mention Nazareth. Josephus grew up in the next town over and mentions many local towns, but not Nazareth. Emperor Constantine's mother (a Xian who persuaded him to make Xianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire) went looking for Nazareth and couldn't find it, so she just had an appropriate town renamed. (I'll save the story of how Jesus became a Nazarene for another post.)

Of course Jews and Xians don't buy the bit about Jerusalem being a Muslim city because Muhammad once dreamed of flying there. Many Muslims see Xians as polytheists because of that trinity stuff. Et fucking cetera. Yes, they have common roots, but they spin off in many different directions. Sects, sects, sects, that's all they think of!

 

[JackLuis]

The only difference in the three is which priests/rabbis/mullahs profit from the "Offering Platter".

Can you say scam artists?

 

[JackLuis]

An example:

New York Priest Stole $1M Church Lady Donations For His Gay S&M Master, As One Does

Every Sunday around the great US and A, churches pass the collection plates, so they can use the money to buy food and clothes for poor kids, and send Bibles to China, and so their priests can have “drug-fueled sex romps” in the dungeon with Keith. Because Catholic priests need somebody to help them wind down after a hard day of priesting, and it helps if that somebody is named Keith, has big muscles, and forces everybody to drink his pee:

For example, the lawsuit says a very famous scumbag motherfucker Catholic bigwig by the name of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, current archbishop of New York and former president of the U.S. Conference Of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), knew ALL about how these two lovebirds would get in the bathtub and swim in pee (which even resulted in a nasty boo-boo on Keith’s knee one time, according to his sometimes lady sex friend!), and how the moneys for “Extreme Bathtub: Gay S&M Priest Edition” came directly from the coffers of not only two churches, but also a thrift shop Miqueli was responsible for.

And what did he do about it? Not shit, says the lawsuit.

But Cardinal Dolan was probably busy doing these other scumbag things, and didn’t have time to worry about Rev. Gross-Gross and his dungeon master: