Wednesday OTA/What’s in a name?

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What’s in a name?

Followers of Mohammed are often called Mohammedans, because they claim to follow the teachings and example of Mohammed. Followers of Jesus usually call themselves Christians, because he was proclaimed by his followers to be the annointed one, the Christ. Both names label those who wear them as claming to follow, to emulate the one whose name they wear. Now, obviously, anyone who’s a part of a Western society and who has any knowledge of the New Testament teachings of Christ and about him will have a decent chance of spotting those who claim to be Christians but are not, simply by comparing their lives to the life and teachings of the founder of Christianity–and indeed, we can examine the lives of men throughout history who claimed to follow Christ but who plainly seemed to be liars. Abbot Arnaud stands as an historical example of one who claimed to follow Christ but showed no Christlike mercy when he commanded the Cathars of Bezier slain (and not just the Cathars, recall his famous words: “Kill them all; God will know his own.”) in 1209.

So, too, with Muslims (or Mohammedans). But discerning “honest” Muslims from those who are not true followers of Mohammed can be more difficult for one very important reason: true Muslims have no problem lying to or decieving those who are not believers in their cult. In fact, deception and lies are specifically taught by both the words and deeds of Mohammed, so how to tell when one is dealing with a true Mohammedan or not can be a tricky proposition. It’s safer to assume that anyone claiming to be a follower of Mohammed is what they say they are, regardless of what we can see of their actions.

Of course, if someone is openly emulating the life and teachings of Mohammed, then such a determination is quite easy, isn’t it? After all, where Jesus taught his disciples that self-sacrifice in service to others–including one’s enemies–was a positive good, and then demonstrated it in the crucifixion, Mohammed taught and demonstrated the exact opposite. Mohammed’s teachings and life are a seamless cloth of sacrificing others to satisfy his gluttony, his sexual perversion and his desire for power.

Muhammad was married to eleven women at one time, relegating them to either consecutive days or (according to some accounts) all in one night. He married a 9-year-old girl and even his adopted son’s wife. On top of that he had a multitude of slave girls and concubines with whom he had sex – sometimes on the very days in which they had watched their husbands and fathers die at the hands of Muhammad’s armies. [emphasis added]

The contrasts between Mohammed and Jesus are many, and in fact, you can just about take every single solitary virtue evidenced in the life of the Nazarene and find its opposite vice evidenced in the life of Mohammed.

And so might you know their respective followers. Sure, there may be some disciples of Mohammed who are not murdering rapists, thieving thugs and liars, but they’d be very poor Muslims to scorn the xlear example of the founder of their religion. And yes, it’s easy to find people claiming to be Christians who have not the slightest scruple that they in no way emulate or follow the life and teachings of the founder of Christianity.

Such faux “Christians” who have not one whit of shame for their lying claims would make good Muslims, don’t you think?

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