Yigal Chripun wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Yigal Chripun"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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A millennium ago, Europe was in the midst of the dark ages while all
scientific advances were made by Islamic scholars (know Algebra?),
and the
christian world went on holy crusades to fight the evil "barbarians",
now
a millennium later the wheel had turned and the Islamic world is in its
own dark-age (Iran is prime example of that) and the Islamic extremists
are calling for Jihad against the corrupt and evil heretics of the west.
Non of that is present in Judaism.
I'm no theology expert, but from what I understand, the Islamic
concept of
Jihad really refers to a person's internal good-vs-evil struggle, not an
external struggle. The so-called "Muslims" that take Jihad to mean
actually
committing violence against other people are bastardizing thier own
religion
in the same way that some people bastardize Christianity into allegedly
being pro-"white power".
Not quite so. Jihad is one of the pillars of Islam, and has about 4
sub-categories one of which is _Jihad_by_sword_
here's a quote for example from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_of_Islamic_scholars_on_Jihad :
<quote>
Ibn Rushd, in his Muqaddimāt, divides Jihad into four kinds:
"Jihad by the heart; Jihad by the tongue; Jihad by the hand and
Jihad by the sword." He defines "Jihad by the tongue" as "to commend
good conduct and forbid the wrong, like the type of Jihad Allah (swt)
ordered us to fulfill against the hypocrites in His Words, “O Prophet!
Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites” (Qur'an [Qur'an
9:73]). Thus, Seraj and Ahmad Hendricks have expressed a view that
Muhammad strove against the unbelievers by sword and against the
hypocrites by tongue
</quote>
the only link between Judaism to Christianity is that supposedly
Jesus was
Jewish.
Umm...Judaism and Christianity share an entire Bible. Of course,
Christianity adds another Bible (the "New Testament") but they equally
revere what they call the "Old Testament", which *is* the Jewish
Bible. As
part of that Bible, both religions contain The Ten Commandments, Moses,
Abraham (this particular part also being shared by Islam), Adam and Eve,
Noah's Ark, and probably some other things. I'm not sure where you get
the
idea that Jesus's religion is the only connection between Judaism and
Christianity.
Christianity has mostly redefined out of existence most of the Jewish
concepts if not all of them as they appear in the bible (the old
testament), and the new testament which overrides the old one defines
different, and contradicting new concepts.
Christians use different interpretations of the bible and the christian
faith basically broke backwards compatibility (to borrow a software
concept) with Judaism.
You seem to be assuming that modern Judaism is identical to
first-century Judaism. It clearly isn't. In particular, (1) the
destruction of the temple required significant "breaking of backward
compatibility" (not to anywhere near the same extent as Christianity, of
course), and (2) Orthodox Judaism recognizes the Talmud, which was
written down later than the New Testament.
Also Christianity retains the Tanakh(Old Testament) word-for-word and
regards it as authoritative. This put strict limits on the extent of
possible divergence.
So to some extent it's a relationship like:
|
|Tanakh
|
/ \_
| \_
/ \_
/ \
Judaism Christianity
Also Islam inherits concepts from the Talmud, as well as things from the
New Testament, so it's not a "single inheritance" situation at all. It's
as messy as C++ code involving virtual inheritance.
Actually it'd be pretty interesting to model it in code <g>. The Tanakh
(Old Testament) involves a number of virtual functions and a lot of
code. Christianity and modern Judaism inherit all of the code from it,
Islam only inherits the interfaces.
