The Debate About Religion Topic

[ReimTime]

JWeinCom said:

ReimTime said:
Jews definitely came before Christians. Jesus the man was a Jew. The Last Supper was a Seder meal. Christianity became it's own religion because unlike Judaism, Jesus believed in accepting all followers; whether they were Jews or not; and taught different things. Paul spread the religion throughout Northern Africa.

Yeah.  To add, I think we should allow Jews to define Judaism, and Christians to define Christianity and so on.  Judging one religion from another's perspective is a bad thing.  If we judged Christians from the Jewish standard, they'd simply be Jews who had been deceived.

Eh it's a tough subject because Judaism, Chiristianity, and Islam are such broad terms. Under Christianity there is Mormonism, Eastern Orthodox, Protestantism, Roman Catholic etc. Judaism has an even bigger split because there are hardcore Jews who follow the Torah to a tee and there are Conservative Jews who do not believe it is the word of God (Ex: cutting hair on temples vs leaving it). Islam has bigger splits still (leaders have to be descendants of Muhammad, and are divine figures who cannot make mistakes (Shi'a) vs leaders who can any member of Muhammad's tribe, are human beings that make mistakes (Sunni).

To answer Esiar's comment: false. Judaism existed before Islam. When Muhammad was driven out of Mecca (his main protection died and enemies came after him) he sought refuge amongst the Jews in Medina. They got along quite well, actually.

*edit* whoops I misunderstood what you meant by others defining a religion. Ignore first paragraph, unless you want to learn about splits in faith haha