On Sat September 9 2006 9:50 pm, Biju Chacko wrote: > Quite frankly, I'm not sure what definition would put Christianity in > a different basket from Islam. The two religions are so similar as to > be virtually branches of each other.
umm- at the risk of being politically incorrect, I think that Islam is an offshoot of Christianity rather than both being branches of some other trunk (eg Judaism). Islam is, after all, 600 years younger and that argument is actually used to bolster the statement that Islam is the final update downloaded from God, with Mohammad being the last and final Prophet. shiv
