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Originally posted by SigmaChiCard
Islam in my opinion is a subsect of a broader belief most closely associated with Christianity filled with all the same archetypes and characters....
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To put this in, perhaps, a slightly less subjective manner: the "Judeo-Christian" religions (Judaism, Islam, and all sects of Christianity) share innumerable points, theories, codes of conducts, characters, and even texts. They are most definitely related to a common root - in fact, Mohammad and Jesus provide the exact time in which their followers broke from this root.
MissSwiss - I think you took
SXCard's point extremely too personally. It's been a while, but I believe that the Koran refers to Christians and Jews as "people of the book", due to common ancestral root beliefs, and allows them a special place in paradise after 500 years of purgatory - if you need any more connection between Islam and Christianity, then certainly we can go for that. I think
SXCard has stated similarity in form, custom, and belief between the two (even three) religions, and I don't think that anyone will argue this. Sure, there are implicit differences in belief or custom (otherwise they'd be the same religion), but in general all three are very similar (as they should be - they came from the same common root religion and people).