LOL, Baby Snooks, I wondered when someone was gonna throw in the Mormons!  Maybe is was peyote instead of LSD.  I guess it’s a good thing there aren’t Mormon terrorists!  OF course, to them there is limited space in Heaven and different levels of Heaven.  Of course your eternal destiny as a woman is tied to that of your spouse as well.  The thing that really blows me away is the secret/sacred undergarment thing, so God will know who they are.  A former Mormon I know compared it to the Masons.

Kidding aside, while I don’t agree with their beliefs, I have to commend them on the fact that that church does seem to function as churches should in that the church serves its members and the members serve the church, or I guess the members serve each other.  When I lived in AZ, my neighbor, who was LDS, had some severe complications during childbirth.  I must say, that the church members made sure that ALL meals were provided, the house cleaning, laundry, child care etc were all taken care of for her and her family.  That was impressive.  I belong to a non-denominational church that advocates your personal relationship with Christ and also Grace, so I do see the members pulling together.  However, so many churches, regardless of their brand of religion, seem to just want your money and don’t serve.  I had actually avoided organized religion for many years prior stumbling upon this group of folks for those very reasons.

Not exactly, Snooks. First, Islam has taken many of its practices from a watered down and debased version of Judaism as apparently understood by Mohammed. Second, Islam is unquestionably a politico-religion espousing war and violence, as its world is divided into dar el Islam (the world of submission, or Moslem-dominated countries) and dar el Harb, the world of war, or everyone else—that’s us. The aim of Jihad is to take over for Islam, whether by violent struggle, enslavement, conversion, or taxation with secondary citizen status for non-Muslims. In Islam’s 1400-year history, a large part of those years has been given over to Islamic leaders taking over or trying to take over N Africa, Spain, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Now it is setting it sights on the US. Not so Judaism. Even though at core it is a politico-religion as well, it only refers to the Jews and the Jews started in Israel. It does not mandate taking over the world by force, it does not mandate forced or coerced conversion, and it is very much anti-violence. In its history it has taken over nothing but biblical Israel, with very limited incidences of forced conversions; the one that comes to mind engineered by a king converted from the Arabs.  Christianity has had a doctrine in some aspects similar to Judaism and in some not, but its history of violent takeovers was less organized (you call it different authorities) and somewhat less doctrinal than Islam. So, the fundamentalists of each religion may be similarly strict and rigid but their specific behaviors in some very important ways are very different.

Islam is particularly dangerous because it appeals to the worst and most simplistic desires of men, especially for power, glory,  and authority, and because it has few internal mechanisms for change, and is very resistant to change. At the core despite various attempts at beautification it is a very crude and abusive propagandistic religion. I expect that it must go down because all religions like this have gone down sooner or later.

In reality Judaism does not accept Christianity or Islam as a legitimate religion and Christianity does not accept Islam as a legitimate religion. Islam, however, does accept Judaism and Christinatiy as legitimate religions but merely believe they both broke their convenants with god.   All three do not accept other religions as legitimate religions.

You of course have great debate within Christianity.  The Church itself encountered a schism over authority which is how we ened up with the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. And then of course you have the schism, also over authority, the produced the Protestant churches including the Anglican Church which is now in the process apparently of becoming part of the Roman Catholic Church once more. And then you have the Mormons who stand alone and who, again, believe they represent the final convenant with god.   One god and yet so many divisions in the religion itself. 

The tie that binds of course is the misogyny.  Adam’s rib and all that.   Which is why men get 72 virgins and women apparently continue to serve their husbands in paradise. If they were not so blessed with a husband on earth, their fathers and brothers. Islam is a little fuzzy around the edges but so is Christianity and Judaism. 

I believe in god.  The one who threw the rock at Abraham.