Dmitri wrote:Members of each Abrahamic tradition are quick to point out the rational and moral flaws in the others. I wonder sometimes, what this world might be like if they were as quick to examine the flaws in their own.
http://www.alternet.org/30-most-violent ... -and-quranIn the end, the scholars can agree on one thing: The DNA of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam code for a lot of violence. Whether they can evolve out of it is another thing altogether.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =124494788
Several problems with this:
1) it seems that political violence is a far more important theme in core Islamic texts than Judaism or Christianity:
https://www.politicalislam.com/the-poli ... the-koran/
2) Christianity & Judaism both developed the Golden Rule, which precludes violence by implication (in the New Testament & Hillel's commentaries. Islam's version appears to be restricted to fellow Muslims - otherwise slave-taking etc wouldn't be permissible.
So (particularly if the first source in particular is accurate, which I can't vouch for) Islam appears to give a lot more direct scriptural support to (political) violence. That could be an influence of the extent to which it has 'evolved out of it'.