Christianity and Islam: The Failure of Islam

This article is the first in a multipart series. Other installments include the false claims of Islam, Mohammed the first Islamic terrorist, and why Muslims are the enemies of Christians.

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
                                                                  -- John 8:32

"We will renew the promise of the Peace Corps, double its volunteers over the next five years and ask it to join a new effort to encourage development, and education and opportunity in the Islamic world."
                                                                  -- President Bush, Jan. 29, 2002

The Islamic world is a mess. What is wrong with it is not the weather, or a lack of natural resources, or prejudice against Muslims, or the continued existence of Jews or Christians. What is wrong with the Islamic world is Islam.

Islam is one of the world's largest cults. It was founded in 610 A.D.  by a camel driver known later as Mohammed (popular spelling of the preferred Muhammad), who claimed to have received special revelations from God (Allah). Mohammed took some of the Bible (Moses, David, the prophets, and Jesus) and rewrote it for his own purposes (the Koran), claiming that God had revealed to him that the Bible had become corrupted beyond usability, so God was giving him a new version. (Similar tactics have been employed by cult founders of the past two centuries, such as Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, Sun Myung Moon, and Charles Taze Russell.)

The failure of Islam in society begins with its foundational premise that mankind can be made perfect. Both Christianity and Islam recognize the inherent sinfulness of man. But while Christians understand that salvation can only come in the perfection and love of Jesus, Muslims believe that a man can become perfect simply by working at it. The obviously true adage that "nobody's perfect" does not stop Muslims from striving for perfection, or from enforcing their version of perfection on others, through oppressive government.

Citizens of Muslim countries enjoy no personal liberty. They are denied freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and other basic freedoms that Americans understand to be unalienable God-given rights. They cannot even dress and groom themselves as they choose. Muslims claim that Jews are oppressors; but when I visited Israel several years ago, I was free to read my Bible openly in every Jewish-controlled sector, including their most holy places such as the Wailing Wall. But Muslim soldiers confiscated all Bibles on the Muslim-controlled Temple Mount.

Contrary to recent statements in the media referring to Islam as a peaceful religion, Muslim children are taught to despise Jews and Christians, and to seek to destroy them. They are taught hate instead of love, fear instead of confidence, and violence instead of peace. And these concepts are being taught, not only in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, but also in Muslim schools in America.

Islam suffocates the human spirit, stifling compassion and creativity. Thus, the President of the United States recognizes the need in Muslim countries for development, education, and opportunity. I agree with him on this point, but Islamic leaders will disagree. They will see the President's good intentions as evil and arrogant. They believe that people's lives are in the hands of an angry and capricious god, who commands them to destroy those who do not submit to their harsh authority.

With a religion-based philosophy that Allah does not care about individuals, Muslim governments do not care about their citizens. Their eyes, clouded by hatred, see no purpose for kindness and caring and love. Thus, Muslim countries continue to live by the standards of the 7th Century. While they pursue jihad in the name of Allah, they ignore their own people's basic needs for food, shelter, education, and medical treatment. Their governments are chronically at war with the rest of the world, actively promoting acts of terrorism against civilians. They are a failure and a disgrace to the human race.

Christianity birthed modern science and technology (based on the uniquely Christian understanding that God created an orderly universe, governed by natural laws). Christians founded nearly all of the world's great universities, and many of the world's great hospitals, orphanages, and relief agencies. Christianity is the basis of the best (American) government in the world. Christians caused slavery to be abolished in the West (although slavery is still practiced in Muslim countries and sanctioned by their governments).

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