Finding A Common Ground Between Islam And Christianity

The modern idea that Christians and Muslims have nothing in common would seem absurd to the founders of Islam. In the very beginnings of Islam, Muslims considered Christians as brothers and believers in the same God as them. However, today Christians tend to view Muslims with suspicion, with a preconceived idea of Islam as a violent religion that advocated bloody Jihad and is oppressive to its followers and non-Muslims alike. Meanwhile, many Muslims adhere to the ridiculous idea that Christianity is a permissive religion that allows its followers all manner of perversions, sinful behavior and blasphemy. This point of view is completely wrong and both religions are extremely similar in most of their tenets, especially since they both share much of the Old Testament. In fact, most of the differences that have grown between the followers of both religions are not due to the actual faiths but to social and cultural aspects and differences between the Western lifestyle and Arab traditions. read more ....