Islam and Christianity are almost the same!

[HappySqurriel]

Mendicate Bias said:

HappySqurriel said:

One of the core differences between Islam and Christianity (or Judaism) is how the doctrine is viewed today. For the most part, in Christianity and Judaism there is the belief that the Bible and Torah need to be interpreted and made relevant in modern life, where the Qu'aran and Haddiths are supposed to be taken as the true words of the prophet (and therefore god). While most western born and raised Muslims from middle class backgrounds probably have a view of Islam which is closer to how Christian or Jewish people see their religion, these individuals are a tiny minority of the people who follow Islam; and it would be more appropriate to label these individuals extremists than moderate Muslims due to how they line up with mainstream Islam on a worldwide scale.

A bunch of things wrong with that post. The haddiths are in no way the word of God, they are stories about what prophets and religious leaders did or said in specific situations. Not to mention they are extremely corrupted, any intelligent muslim can tell you that.

Secondly your interpretation of how muslims view the Quran is completely wrong. Even among the very religious there are arguments on the meanings of verses. The majority of muslims understand that we would be foolish to believe that we can understand everything said in the Quran and the meanings of many things are probably beyond the grasp of our understanding.

I don't know where you get your information but I would advise you look somewhere else for an accurate understanding of islam.

I understand what the Hadiths are, and I think I phrased my last post poorly.

My information about islam comes from the religious studies class I took in university which was taught by an Imam ...

Regardless of whether you want to believe it or not, within Islam the belief is that the Qu'aran is the true word of god because it was written down by the Prophet Mohammed; and the Haddiths are seen to be unquestioned stories about the Prophet Mohammed and are examples of how to live because they were written down in his lifetime. This is significantly different from the other Abrahamic religions being that their religious texts were written hundreds of years after their prophets died; and, in the case of Christianity in particular, have been translated several times to become the books they are today.

There is far less room to interpret the Qu'aran as there is to interpret the Bible, especially given that after the Reformation a large portion of Christians (protestants) have choosen a view of the religion where a large portion of the passages are (more or less) invalidated or outdated.