Christianity and Islamic Religions: A Blessing or a Curse Part 1

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viewed as instructions of God to his Muslim followers to kill unbelievers, to capture them, to ambush them (Quran 9.5). Till this day many attack the unequal justice present between men and women in Islam. Scholars claim Islamic law, such as verse 4:34 of Quran, allows and encourages domestic violence against women, when a husband suspects disobedience, disloyalty, rebellion, ill conduct in his wife. Not only Islam was accused of such but also Christianity. The Bible comprises /far /more /verses flattering or /urging /bloodshed than does the Quran, and biblical /violence is /often far /more /extreme, and marked by more /indiscriminate barbarity. If the /founding text /shapes /the whole /religion, then /Judaism and /Christianity deserve the highest criticism as religions of /savagery. In the “Old Testament” /the principle /of /"an eye for an eye" is /often /referred to /using the /Latin /phrase /lex /talionis, the law of /talion. The significance of the /principle Eye for an Eye is that an individual who has /injured /another person /returns the /offending /action to the /originator in /compensation. It also contains versus allowing slavery. Other than the violent teachings preached in the bible, Torat or Quran, religions were condemned violent for they often lead countries to tensions among different religious groups. What better place to talk about the tensions that rise between different religions than the Middle East. The Middle East houses the three principal monotheistic religions; Islam, Christianity and Judaism, which originated from it. Lebanon is the perfect example of this diversity for it contains these three religions along with all their subgroups. Although the situation is mostly calm and people are accepting of each... ... middle of paper ... ...this is how Christians “oppose abortion, stem cell research, and pre- or extramarital sex because these practices are ethically wrong” (Habermas, 2008, P.817) yet fail to oppose many immoral acts taking place around the world from the starvation of millions to certain wars led by their countries and resulted in the death of innocence. So in a sense religion lead individuals to miss-rank things on their priority list. Works Cited  Berger, P. L. (2012). Further Thoughts on Religion and Modernity. Springer  Galadari, A. (2011). Science vs. religion: The debate ends.The International Journal of Science in Society,2(2), Retrieved from http://science-society.com/journal/  Habermas, G. R. (2008). The plight of the new atheism:a critique. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 813-827.  Witt, J. (2007). The big picture. (1st Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

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