(December 8, 2017 at 11:45 am)dyresand Wrote:(December 8, 2017 at 8:41 am)Chad32 Wrote: It's funny how some christians will say islam is so different from them, and they don't worship the same god, yet their religions all consider the same city to be a sacred holy site.
It really isn't all 3 abrahamic religions have the same things in common even bloodshed and wars.
Um yes they do. But to be fair, every religion in our species history has had it's conflicts to greater or lesser degrees.
Don't confuse one era or geography in one moment in time as being the totality of our entire species history. They have all had their violence, yes, even Jews, even today Jews have a far right too.
Buddhists and Hindus as well have their beefs and histories of both internal and external conflicts. There has never been in our species history a 100% peaceful religion. I'd even bet even the Amish could get violent in the future if given a majority political power. The Amish only are peaceful now because nobody sees them as a real rival or threat because they are so small by comparison to the bigger sects.
Humans are still humans regardless of label. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is not in a label, but in our evolution.
But specifically to the God of Abraham, nope sorry. They are the same line. And that line stems from a polytheism of rival city states which the Yahweh character stems from.
The west simply has learned to tamp down religious tribalism through concepts of secular common law. If you were to suddenly take that leash off in the west, it would not take long for those sects to be violent too.
