Has anybody else seen any similarities between the rise of Christianity and Islam?
Both Christianity and Islam had good natured, humble beginnings. Both were moderate in the beginning. Both became mainstream after a ruler endorsed it. Both had extremists.
Bear with me here. Both had an extremely constraining set of laws that were only followed somewhat when the people of both areas were unified. Islam with shariah, christians with mosaic. Christians only started persecuting mosaic violators after the rome fell and left a power vacuum, before that being the most powerful and influential empire in history. In the middle east, science flourished, algebra was invented and modern medicine and techniques were learned from the Muslims. Then in the 50s, the extremists started gaining power in every country with a majority muslim population. Shariah law became law in most of those countries already to weak to defend from the inside.
Islam, through my observation, is at the same point in history that the catholic church was for its first 500 years.
This is merely my take on the whole thing, any thoughts?
Both Christianity and Islam had good natured, humble beginnings. Both were moderate in the beginning. Both became mainstream after a ruler endorsed it. Both had extremists.
Bear with me here. Both had an extremely constraining set of laws that were only followed somewhat when the people of both areas were unified. Islam with shariah, christians with mosaic. Christians only started persecuting mosaic violators after the rome fell and left a power vacuum, before that being the most powerful and influential empire in history. In the middle east, science flourished, algebra was invented and modern medicine and techniques were learned from the Muslims. Then in the 50s, the extremists started gaining power in every country with a majority muslim population. Shariah law became law in most of those countries already to weak to defend from the inside.
Islam, through my observation, is at the same point in history that the catholic church was for its first 500 years.
This is merely my take on the whole thing, any thoughts?
