Freedom of Religion

[Abracadabra]

Because actually, while believers in Christianity may not realize it, their continued belief in Christianity actually loans merit and support to Islam. Because after all, they are both based on the same foundational doctrines.

So when Christians support Christianity they are actually supporting the God of Islam at the same time without even realizing it.

By Definition Christians follow Christ Jesus and predominantly trinitarian, Muslims do not follow Jesus, nor do Jews. Jehovah's witnesses aren't trinitarian so they could be considered fringe Christian on that doctrine alone. I think your understanding of the Abrahamic religions is infantile and incomplete. I welcome your opinion, but you know they say opinions are like ...

By who's definition of Christianity?

You accuse me of having an infantile and incomplete understanding of the Abrahamic religoins, yet here you are acting as though the "Christ" of Christianity can somehow be separated from the God of Abraham of the Old Testament.

That, my friend is utterly impossible. The whole point of the New Testament is to try to claim that Jesus was the miraculous Son of the God of Abraham sent by this God through a virgin birth to become the sacrificial lamb to pay for the "sins" of mankind.

This is actually a great folly of Christianity itself. The so-called followers of this religion (i.e. people who claim to be "Christians") try very hard to make Jesus into GOD, and basically reject the idea that the God of Abraham is actually the GOD of this religion.

No, I'm sorry tackattack, but if anyone's misunderstanding Christianity and the Abraham religions here it's you.

You cannot simultaneously claim that Jesus was the "Son of the God of Abraham", and then try to pretend like being a Christian has nothing to do with the God of Abraham. It has EVERYTHING to do with it. In fact, even as a "Christian" you are supposed to love the God of Abraham with all your mind, heart, and soul. NOT Jesus!

This is the folly of Christianity. They try to make Jesus into God and use Jesus as an excuse to pretend that the God of Abraham doesn't matter anymore.

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Even according to the gospels, Jesus himself did not approve, nor condone the immoral teachings of the Torah that had been attributed to the "God of Abraham" Thus Jesus was a blasphemer of the God of Abraham renouncing the teachings and directives of that God.

The God of Abraham taught that people should seek revenge as in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Jesus renounced that teaching and instead suggested that people should not seek revenge and should instead turn the other cheek and forgive those who trespass against them.

That's a complete rejection of the teachings and WORD of the God of Abraham.

Jesus also refuted the directive that we should be judging others and stoning them to death as sinners. Jesus taught not to judge others.

Again that's complete and utterly blaspheme against the WORD of the God of Abraham from the Torah.

Jesus was most likely a Jewish Mahayana Buddhist (that was the most popular form of Buddhism in those days). The things that Jesus taught are far more in line with the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism than they are with the teachings of the God of Abraham.

So even according to the New Testament Jesus himself blasphemed against the teachings of the Torah and the "Word" of the God of that religion.

You speak about being naive, or infantile with respect to the Abrahamic religions, yet if you think for one second that you can separate Jesus from the God of Abraham in this region you are the one who has absolutely no understanding of the religion.

You cannot separate Jesus from the God of Abraham and maintain his divine status as the "Son of God". That's utter nonsense.

It's the God of Abraham that you are supposed to LOVE with all your mind, body, and soul NOT Jesus!

And clearly Jesus could not have been the God of Abraham since he totally disagreed with the mentality and directives of that mythological God. Jesus actually rejected the teachings of the God of Abraham and instead taught the more intelligent moral ethics of Mahayana Buddhism (or at least their precise equivalent if by accident).

Jesus did not support the immoral teachings of the God of Abraham.

So you're the one who needs to study up on the Abrahamic Religions my friend. You're not supposed to be worshiping Jesus, you're suppose to be worshiping the God of Abraham. The same God who hates homosexuals, supports male-chauvinism, slavery, and judging people and stoning them to death even though he had commanded people not to kill.

It's an asinine religion. Sorry but that's just the TRUTH of reality.

A God who commands people not to kill and then instructs them to judge others and stone sinners to death? And even their unruly children?

The Abrahamic religion is stupider than Greek Mythology, IMHO.

And Jesus was most likely a misunderstood Mahayana Buddhist who actually spoke out against this utter nonsense taught by the Torah.

According to the authors of the New Testament. Jesus rejected all that crap. He couldn't have been the "Son" of the God of Abraham, because he didn't even agree with the teachings attributed to that God. He taught the exact opposite moral values. And what he taught was already being taught by the Mahayana Buddhists long before Jesus was ever born.

If Jesus could be a "God" in his own right maybe the religion could be made to work. But that wouldn't be "Christianity".

In Christianity Jesus is nothing without the God of Abraham. The Christian Jesus stands on the shoulders of the God of Abraham. Take away the God of Abraham and Jesus has no legs of his own to stand on in these fables.

I understand this religion to the hilt.

Clearly you don't.