Christianity began with Jesus about two thousand years ago. Catholicism bases itself on three basics: the Old Testament Bible, the New Testament Bible, and Tradition. The movement went unchanged until Martin Luther decided enough was enough. He had a long list of complaints about the things Catholics believed and Rome condoned. He decided to post his list, and to begin a new religion based on the more traditional rules. Since then, Christianity has fractionated many times over into many sects all proclaiming their religion the one that leads to heaven. There are many versions of the bible and depending on which religion you profess decides which version of the bible you follow. Catholics follow only their approved version( Nihil Obstat), Others follow the Saint James version. All of the fractions base themselves on Jesus’ teachings. The fact remains that Catholicism is the one true religion based on Jesus. All the others are inventions of men who have become dissatisfied with one thing or another with the Catholic Church, like selling indulgences, divorce, the Pope, etc. Before that, Judaism was the religion  professing  one God, and a life after death.(Heaven).

I present these facts because I want to make some sense out of the Muslim contention that Islam is the one true religion and that their God is the only God. They also contend that the Koran is the word of their God, and that the Koran contains the guiding principles of Islam. Because the laws contained in the Koran are from their God they over-ride all other law.

What I have trouble with is the hypocrisy of the many Muslim groups professing that they are not the Muslims who profess terror. They are not the radicalized Muslims. They are peaceful, loving, and caring people. Yet, it is always a Muslim who knowingly straps a bomb to his body and walks into a crowded arena to pull the trigger.

Muslims are fractionated just like Christians, and they call themselves Sunni, Shia, Wah Habi, Radicalized, and maybe some more too, but they all purport to derive their beliefs from the same laws contained in the Koran. At least when Luther broke from Roman Catholicism he listed all the problems he had with the system as it was. These became the basis for the new sect called Lutheranism. Where are these same writings for Muslims? Where are the different versions of the Koran that they use to teach their form of Islam? All I ever hear is that the Koran is the word of God and that is what they go by. How can we know which sect of Islam a radical, or a peace-lover truly believe in if they all follow the same word of God? How do the Imams teach the values of their sect when the words of the Koran are the same no matter what? Do all Imams interpret and teach the Koran exactly thee same?

Peaceful Muslims would like us all to believe they are not radicals, yet radicals seem to migrate from within their peace-loving congregations. Why is that? What is the trigger that sets a peace-lover into a bomb blasting beheader? Which word in the Koran sets this person off? If they know what does it, then why don’t a peace-loving Imams revise the Koran so the trigger words are not in their version? As the King in Anna and the King of Siam once said, “Is a puzzlement.”

Will somebody please clear this up for me?

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