(October 14, 2020 at 8:03 am)Klorophyll Wrote: Christians and Jews are going to hell according to Islam, by default:
Another laughable assertion one reads frequently, which has a lot to do with the misconception above, when one thinks about it. Someone adhering to christianity or judaism simply doesn't believe in the main tenets of Islam. Usually, christians and jews are simply nonbelievers, not kafir's, as defined above. If a christian is never presented with anything compelling him to believe that Muhammad' PBUH was the final prophet, he falls into the first category, not the second one, which is the one repudiated in the Qur'an.
Christians and Jews will go to hell according to Quran because they don't believe in Allah and everyone who disbelieves in Allah goes to hell according to Quran:
Quran Wrote:“Say to those who misbelieve, ‘You shall be overcome and driven together to Hell.… God bears witness that there is no god but He.… But whoever disbelieves in God’s signs, truly God is quick at reckoning up” (sura 3:10–19).
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
