From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 17:19:51 BST
Sam, DMB and all
Khaled Says
Please consider the following:
When I get in discussion with people about religion, they say to me you
worship Allah and we worship God.
So I ask them. If you Happen to be a Christian living in an Arab speaking
country, what do you call God?
They answer I get is God of course, then I tell them it is Allah. That
tends to derail their train of thought and the first word out of their
mouth is "NO".
That goes to show me 1. The ignorance 2. their refusal to see how Close
the main 3 monotheistic religions are. ( Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Which begs the next question. ( Play along here) when Christ does return,
where do you think is he going to show up? Toledo, Ohio.?
I think not. I would love to see the look on the face of the
fundamentalists when they see a dark skinned, Arabic speaking messiah
telling them it's time to go.
( I would love to see a survey showing me how many people think that the
Bible was originally written in English). And do you happen to know where
the word Bible comes from. The town of Byblos, North of Beirut was known
for it's high quality papyrus paper.
On a parting note, it's also very interesting to compare Eastern
Christianity ( not Eastern orthodox necessarily) to protestant/catholic
practices of those who live in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and
Jordan to those who live in Europe and those who live in America.
My point is before you go on comparing eastern religion to western, take
a look at Eastern Christianity to western. How it first got Romanized,
then westernized.
That would give you lots of clues to the larger endeavor of comparing
eastern _ _ _ to Western _ _ _.
For example in the Lord's prayer in English we say
Our Father who art in heaven.............Give us our daily bread
in Arabic you say:
Our father in the skies..........Give us our bread, enough for our day.
Just a thought.
Khaled
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