Islam versus Christians
The winner? Buddhism


The monotheistic religions have common roots and have introduced moral codes related fundamentally to the spiritual component of the human beings. When you follow the teachings of the Bible or Torah, of the Evangelia, of the Koran, you are adhering to a way of living mostly unknown to primitive civilizations.
One would expect that, as of today, the teachings of the monotheistic religions should be, not only similar, but also almost identical.
Actually, this is true only for a large percentage of the moral principles. It is true that Jesus said something likes “those who injure other people with a sward will die by a sward” but he said also “the one without sin shall throw the first stone”. The Koran, at least in the first case, preaches more or less the same principles. Christians, being well aware of the fact that more or less all human beings are sinners, have emphasized the second teaching. Islam, sure of the adherence of the individual to the Koran doctrine, still stress the need for a punishment. This, obviously, does not represent a confirmation of the fact that those who throw the first, the second, the third stone, are in peace with Allah. This means only that they consider themselves to be in peace with Allah.
Now, when we compare the teachings of the old Evangelia with those actually preached in the different Christian churches, we would find that they have undergone some changes during the two thousand years of Christian life. This occurred with Catholics, Orthodox and Lutherans, beside a plethora of minor Christian sects.
What has been happening through the centuries? Did the experience dictate different trimmings of the sharp edges? Did the frequent violation of some of the principles suggest the revision of the moods specified to reach the beatitude of heaven? Probably, many facts have influenced, and in different ways, the interpretation and the application of Jesus teachings.
This did not happen with the Judaism in spite of the fact that today’s Judaism collects the outcome of centuries and centuries of Diaspora. Living completely different lives in different areas of the known world, Sephardites and Ashkenazites have kept adhering to the teachings of the Torah. In spite of endless discussions among rabbis, practically no deviations occurred in the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
It did in Islam, giving origin to the Shiites and the Sunnites, but it did not change the teachings of the Koran. To the eyes of an unfaithful as I am, the differences between the two Islamic parties are apparently minor, but, analyzing the happenings throughout the centuries, the fights between the two interpretations of the Islam have been as bloody and hard as those between the Catholics, the Orthodox and the Lutherans.
Fights among factions of the same religious party have occurred quite recently: Croatians, fundamentally catholic, fought the Serbians, basically Orthodox.
Anyhow, both of them have fought against the Islamic Bosnia and, at this moment, the Balkans can be considered as the starting point of one of the Islamic aggressions to Europe (read Kossovo).
Why do we speak about an aggression? Because the new invasion planned by the Islam is no longer exclusively due to religious exaltation. In the present situation, although still based on Islam principles of superiority (faithful vs. unfaithful), the aggression has been planned aiming to winning the control of the energy sources on which the Western Countries heavily depend.
Tchetcnia, Afghanistan, the Turkey Islamic party, Kossovo, the Gaza stripe, the swinging Egyptian lack of safety, the Libyan unclear position, the Algerian fundamentalists, are all distributed along the energy belt.
This implies that, fatally, the financial and industrial interests in the Mediterranean area are deeply affected by one, and only one, religion used as a loaded spring to move ingenuous and clean minded poor and less poor people toward a sacrifice to destroy the unfaithful while simultaneously filling up the pockets of the oil kings, emirs and sheiks.
On the other side, the European, backed up and steered by the US, feeling the menace against their Christian traditions, are prone to conduct a quasi-religious war against the Islam attack.
One single country, Christian and European (?), watches the events without taking part in the disputes: Switzerland. This is obvious because they are the safes of the oil magnates, be these from ME or from US and EU countries.
See what religions can do when used correctly as a tool for business!


Since the aforementioned monotheistic religions do include many principles coincident with those taught by the Buddha, may we say that, should any conflict arise among the different interpretations of the “moral principles”, the Buddhism should be taken as the reference?


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