Please buy this—my 'product' is the best: A Christian perspective
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
08
November 2022
Main
points
· Muslims who came out of the hold and
fold of Islam found greater acceptance and affinity in Christianity because
there's no fatherly concept of god in Islam.
· Christianity and Islam are two
morbidly evangelical faiths, selling their respective merchandise right from
their advent.
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The
naiveté of one Christian reader Frank Petras has really amused me (pl. refer to
the former Muslims who had become Christians). His juvenile reason for a
greater rapport with the Christian god in heaven is particularly laughable.
Muslims who came out of the hold and fold of Islam found greater acceptance and
affinity in Christianity because there's no fatherly concept of god in Islam.
This takes the cake and reminds me of Salim Javed's famous dialogue from the
movie Deewaar (1975): Tere paas kya hai? Mere paas Ma hai (What have you got?
I've Mother with me). Paraphrase it from the perspective of Christianity: I
have a Heavenly Father. Hallelujah!
Christianity
and Islam are two morbidly evangelical faiths, selling their respective
merchandise right from their advent. Both religious recruitment agencies have
set up display shops. But Christianity goes a step further in this regard and
sells its eschatological products and concepts such as Father in heaven,
Trinity, Bible and Jesus Christ, who never existed as Christ is human history's
biggest concoction or a hoax.
I put
a simple theological question before the apologists of Christianity. They extol
Jesus' crucifiction (sorry, crucifixion) as his (Jesus') individual sacrifice
for the collective sins of mankind. Great! But doesn't Christ's resurrection
after three days nullify the profundity, pain and pathos on the Cross? Wasn't
it a very short 'martyrdom' to short-change the gullible humans? All martyrs
leave the world forever and that lends poignancy to their sacrifice. Remember
Khudiram Bose, Bhagat Singh, Ashfaqullah Khan, and Mansoor Al-Hallaj, among
others. They all died young. But here, the 'martyr' (Jesus) is resuscitated!
And where did Jesus go after the resurrection? Don't tell me that he came to
Kashmir incognito and became a Hindu sage and his tomb is still there at
Anantnag in the Valley. This is yet another ridiculous version, popularised by
a half-Jain, half-Hindu fraudulent 'spiritual' impostor Osho Rajneesh. One
Buddhist 'scholar' in Sri Lanka told me that he became a Buddhist and died in
Bamiyan in Afghanistan. It's free for all. Coming back to putative Jesus and
his godliness, Christian missionaries will try to convince you by saying that
Jesus is a personal god. He's the sole saviour of mankind. Rubbish! The Bible
is full of discrepancies. The plagiarised concept of Trinity (from Hinduism's
Brahma/Vishnu Mahesh) was interpolated more than a millennium after the advent of
Christianity. Though Surat-born South African Muslim apologist Ahmed Deedat was
an out-and-out dubious character, there's no denying the fact that no Christian
'scholars' and apologists could ever defeat him in polemics and religious
debates. The man was more at home with the Bible than he was with The Qur’an
and he pointed out innumerable flaws in Christianity and the Bible.
It's
time for all useless faiths, not just for Christianity and Islam, to shut their
shops and drop their religions to become plain humans. Remember, all religions
are mere stripes on the body of a Zebra. Be a human and stop becoming a butt of
ridicule. Wake up and smell the coffee. There are far better and greater things
to do in life than to spread your stupid brand of religion.
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A
regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative
religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the
world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
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