tickleandrose wrote: Reply #111 - Today at 9:19am
Quote:Again this is where the religion differs. Christianity and Islam have alot of similarities, however, the core belief are different. Christianity also have many pagan roots. This is how religion developed over time. For example:
Halloween: observed by western Christians, and widely celebrated in USA and Australia. Was in fact linked to Gaelic and Welsh influence.
Christmas: perhaps the most important day after Easter, was a pagan holiday making the winter solstice.
The actual symbol of Santa Clause is infact designed by Coca Cola, even. So you can say its strictly pagan symbol as well if go by a more hardline doctrine.
However, what use is that to debate about something that is theological and cannot be proven? So what if its moon god, so what if the Christmas was a pagan holiday. At the end of day, it is how we treat each other right now, at this life time that matters.
You're all over the shop t&r, one minute they are all Abrahamic, the next well yes they do have pagan roots.
You have a couple of points that are totally flawed:
First off Christianity doesn't have pagan roots, the roots of Christianity (and the foretelling of Christ) are in Judaism, a solely monotheistic belief.
Easter is a Christian religious festival based on the Passover of Judaism (the sacrificial lamb of Judaism is now Jesus in Christianity)
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ, many people link it to pagan roots.
Both of these religious festivals have been commercialized so it's only the believers who see them as spiritual festivals, the rest of the people simply see them as public holidays.
Now it's entirely different with the islamic pagan rituals, the islamic rituals mentioned are an exact same copy of the pagan moon god rituals, nothing has changed except the ancient pagan rituals were to honour a moon god called allah, todays' islamic rituals honour a reinvented moon god allah (muhammad changed moon god allah into a monotheistic god, he also changed allah into a god of pure hatred of all non believers)
I think you're trying to excuse the role islam plays in the behaviour of muslims today 2019, well you can apologize as much as you like for islam because the facts are:
All men proclaim their gods in the image of their own inner self.
muhammad was a pedophile thief liar rapist torturer and mass murderer by todays 2019 standards (so is the god proclaimed by him).
muhammad is cited as the best example to follow for all muslims.
muslims who commit islamic human rights atrocities are all 100% convinced they are doing the right thing doctrinally, they are simply raping torturing and slaughtering the enemies of allah, exactly the same as muhammad did, they offer their evil deeds up to allah as a sacrifice every time the commit them.