Monday, October 31, 2011

Defending the faith

Whenever any post about religion appears almost more than 3 dozen believers rush in to defend their religion. This is more acute in the case of Islam and the Born again version of Christianity. Most of those who rush to defend their religions have no clue of their religion and many, have not even read the Holy Books. I am not blaming them for being wanting in their duty- mainly because it’s so boring to even complete one chapter. Some may have made superhuman gestures to struggle to even complete half a book. Completing the three books of Genesis is like working for a doctorate. Though we may lament this lack of toil in trying to read the scriptures, what we are surprised is the alacrity with which these believers with no knowledge rush to defend it when ethicized. Mebbe some who criticize are also no better acquainted and may have not delved deeply into the Holy books themselves.

The Hebrew Torah, the Psalms of David & the Gospels of Jesus Christ are accepted in the Koran as divinely inspired. Yet the Koran thoroughly contradicts the above three books & explicitly denies Jesus Christ’s crucification. This is the greatest paradox and is causing a great deal of conflict between Muslims and ethnic Jews and is the cause of bloodshed in the Middle East. The main contradiction is about the covenant God made with Abraham (the child of promise) Genesis.15!

As his wife Sarah was barren, she offered her maidservant Hagar to Abraham. So Hagar as a concubine bore Ishmael. However Sarah later begot Isaac who was pronounced as the child of promise who in turn begot Jacob the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Hebrew Torah.
After being left in the desert Ishmael and his mother Hagar settled in the desert of Paran. Ishmael married and his wife bore him twelve sons who became the 12 Tribal chiefs from Havillah (Assyria) to Shar (Egypt). Muslims also believe that Muhammad was the descendent of Ishmael and he would establish the kingdom of Islam. Isn’t it strange that these two religions with a common thread are the bitterest of enemies.

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