It's all about who the most important prophet is, and anyone that disagrees is wrong and we hate them.
Religion is wild.
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Wait until you hear about Christians' conflicts with other Christians! Also a lot of Islamist terror is directed at Muslims who follow Mohammed's teachings the wrong way.
I think that's more relevant. The differeny Christian denominations worship the same God, rather than Muslims and Jews
Was flabbergasted when I found out that there was a straight up murderous hate between different sets of Christianity. You can tell the book is the perfect word of a divine being, since it spawned so many different mutually exclusive interpretations
The vast majority of denominational split is over Church structure. The Bible isn't really clear on how to run a Church or the very specifics (classic one: when Jesus said "this is my body", how do we interpret that?) yet it's quite clear over the important issues- that Jesus, who is God, died for the remission of sins.
I dont think any Christian who has a sliver of religious education considers the bible to be the word of God. For starters some of the Gospels that are canon already start with an explanation that this is a recollected account. Then there is other chapters like the letters to the Romans and so on. As for the Torah it is also clear that it is containing some revelations but also a lot of interpretation and chronicles.
This is fundamentally different to the Quran, which we Muslims believe to be the word of God as revealed to the prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) and preserved in full and in the original Arabic language. Also Muslims are obliged to treat Christians and Jews (people of the book) kindly and respectfully, unless persecuted or attacked by them.
Christians don't believe that the Bible is the literal spoken word of God. Jesus is The Word.
We believe in "divine inspiration" that everything written in it is appointed to be written by God through human authors - that God intended for man to write and compile it. But in reality it's 65 separate works.
The Bible is more of a parallel to Mohammed and Jesus moreso a parallel to the Qur'an if you compare them.
There have been actual crusades inside europe against the 'wrong' type of christians
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There are hundreds (likely actually thousands) of Christian denominations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations
Gonna need a lot more arms.
Doesn't Islam also have multiple different sub-cults within that hate eachothers?
Islam isn't unique in that way. The history of Christianity is just various groups fighting over how to believe correctly.
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Sunni and Shia are not a 70s pop duo.
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There's nothing Christians/Muslims/Jews hate more than slightly different variety of Christians/Muslims/Jews. The other 2 are far behind.
Guess leftists had to learn it from someone.
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I call it the Tyrant god.
The Dome of the Rock seems to be claimed by all three. Abraham attempted to sacrifice his son there, before he was stopped. Muhammed's ascent to heaven took place there (figuratively, not literally), and Jesus threw the moneymen out of the temple at that location.
I always wondered what is so special about that location.
Islam and Judaism: this place is holy for important religious reasons
Christianity: this place rocks because Jesus beat up greedy capitalists.
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Jews don't really hate anyone for not believing in their God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, Jews don't believe that everyone has to follow their religion. They don't really believe in Heaven and Hell, and they don't proselytize to people who aren't already Jews. Judaism is for the Jewish people and that's it.
No, but a key tenet is the belief that Jews have a "higher purpose" in life than gentiles, and unfortunately this manifests as ethno-religious supremacy in the more conservative circles. A lot of the rhetoric surrounding Gaza is that Jews have a biblical right to the land over...the people that actually live there.
maybe I'm naive but that concept "or la'olam" translates to " light to the world"
i grew up thinking it meant that we have the obligation to be a source of good to the world, like we don't have a responsibility to be good to ourselves but to the whole world, we need to become scientists, engineers, .... we aren't superior to anyone, but we've been chosen to dedicate our lives to improve the world.
however in many conservatives circles that is interpreted as being superior and that everyone else will eventually accept it and they will willingly become our slaves. it's insane how the same concept is interpreted so differently.
Well, it is true that unlike other religions, Jews don't try to necessarily recruit new people, They do try to recruit non-religious Jewish people into religion, which is still bad. And the Jewish religion still has a bunch of terrible, racist, misogynistic and overall just terrible beliefs that are inherent to the religion. And there are still a bunch of Jews who just hate all other religions, especially Orthodox Jews.
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time to create a polytheistic religion with 3 gods; Adonai, God, and Allah... it'll unify those three religions into being confused and uncomfortable about my religion.
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