On the contrary, Islam is essentially a proto-protestantism in that it began as a heresy and schism from Christ’s own Church, altered the scriptural canon and texts, denounces Catholicism as a false religion, demonstrate no apostolic succession of authority (instead creating its own) and tends to base its apologetics on emotive arguments rather than systematic reason.
Now that we’ve got the pleasantries out of the way, please feel free to investigate what the Catholic Church actually teaches about
faith and works.
It was Scott Hahn who famously used that line, wasn’t it? I can’t remember the context though.
No, not exactly. Islam was founded by a man who was not a Christian, or a Jew. He was a pagan, for 40 or so years. He was a Hanif
What he did was take Biblical stories that were told to him, twisted them (maybe he heard them wrong - or he twisted them on purpose - who knows!?) and included them in his teachings/Quran. He tried to convert the Jews to his new religion and they would not go for it. He also tried to convert the Christians to his new religion and they did not go for it either.
So, if it is a schism from anything, it is a schism from his Hanif religion. In the Quran there are even references to his old Hanif religon’s godesses (three of them - Allah’s daughters).
Muhammed did not know Judaism and did not know Christianity. The black rock, Mecca, the Kabaa, and all the rites associated with that was all from his Hanif religion. What he did was to delete all the other gods and goddesses from Islam. He almost included Allah’s three daughters but someone advised him to take them out and he did - and those are called the ‘Satanic verses’. Seems odd - how can we be sure the whole thing wasn’t Satanic due to the contents of the teachings.
Some even say Allah is ar-Rahman - another god of Muhammed’s pagan religion. I don’t know, I haven’t thoroughly looked into that. I don’t know what ar-Rahman was in his hanif religion (if he was a bad god then it might be since Allah was a deceiver, created men just so they would not believe so he could throw them into hell and burn, didn’t like women, didn’t like some of the animals he created (eg: pigs), etc).
Basically, to me, Islam is a wannabee religion. It can’t exist on its own teachings - it requires the Bible for some of its existence and then tells us the Bible is corrupted (of course, they cannot prove it) but that is why we should be killed because we corrupted it. Oops, I bet all those who died didn’t have one thing to do with their (false) claims of the Bible being corrupted!! But, they were to die if they didn’t chose to be Muslims, and after Muhammed realized it was to his advantage to have people alive (working the fields, etc) then he started subjugating them (dhimmi). Slaves are another matter. They are taken along with loot after caravans that he raided and cities that he would battle for their loot, and slaves.
He needed loot and slaves - a lot of loot and slaves. He was insatiable.
All those sins that we call the ‘Seven deadly sins’, well, they are not sins in Islam. Muhammed redefined sin and taking slaves and loot from unbelievers is ok.
