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Last night, I finished reading, for the second time, Iain Pears' "The Dream of Scipio", in which a 5th century Manlius Hippomanes, Roman provincial governor, attempted to salvage some semblance of Roman civilization, so that 1500 years later, this same civilization, albeit more "advanced", could murder 6,000,000 Jews. And in which the 14th century Pope Clement VI of Avignon was bribed by a French poet to help protect Jews from retaliation for perceived wrongdoings during the Black Death. (
http://messianicjewishhistory.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/26-september-1348-pope-clement-vi-exonerates-jews-from-causing-the-black-death-otdimjh/)
Early Christian thinkers did exactly what St. Paul warned them against: they succumbed to the temptation to use reason, "the wisdom of the wise", to prove that Jesus was God. In so doing, Christ's message of forgiveness was perverted to the more childish---and selfish---one of sacrifice and salvation, and the associated loss of personal responsibility for one's own acts. (Did Jesus tell you to k**l Jews? No! He did not!! In fact, he said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.") And the teaching that God was "incarnated", that the "Word" was made flesh, is a corruption of the timeless divinity of God.
Early Christians, in contrast to Mohammed and Islam, had a tougher job, perhaps. They not only had to convert a pagan, and animistic, polytheistic people to a belief in monotheism, they also had to convince the philosophers, those who at that time were considered the "wise", that there was only one God. And they resorted to sophistry, something Paul was adamantly against. You cannot prove faith by reason. (Haven't I said that Dawkins can't prove God doesn't exist, and I don't have to prove that He does?) Because the ministry of Christ lasted only three years, the early Christians, of a fractious nature in the first place, devolved into a myriad of different beliefs and heresies (according to some.) An orthodoxy was definitely in order; whereas Mohammed was around for about a quarter of a century, and was able to keep those who submitted to God "rightly guided".
And this is the CRUX:
A quarter of a million Syrian innocents were k**led, while MILLIONS of American Christians turned their backs. But that's okay, I guess, as long as YOU get to heaven. They were only Muslims, anyway. And now America, composed mainly of Christians, thinks she can fix things.
Jews, Christians, Muslims; can they co-exist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIkrsBOymAY "Inch Allah".