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RE: Children of Adam
of course people aren't perfect. of course we don't follow our respective religions 'perfectly'. But that wasnt my point.
My point was that at its core, all religions I know, teach Peace and coexistence. It is only through focusing on the non-essentials that the religious wars are waged, ex. shiyas vs. sunnis, xtians vs. muslims, etc.
All religions teach peace and coexistence? That's simply not true. Have you read the Quran? Islam only teaches peace when there is only Muslims on the earth. All religions at their core are exclusive. Only one can be true. In that one true religion is where we find that universal morality you mention.
well judaism is NOT 'exclusive'. Torah does not teach that non-jews are doomed or damned. Every moral ethical human being will see the eternal reward. While jews welcome sincere converts, it takes serious study under recognized rabbis to be allowed to convert, at least in the orthodox (Torah observant) judaism.
Hence my point about liberal monotheism. Both christianity and islam have a very strong dominant theology teaching that outside of their religion salvation is impossible.
It is slowly changing, but it will take a long time to change. The catholic ex-pope Ratzinger wrote that in his PERSONAL opinion, Torah jews aren't 'damned' or 'unsaved'. Some courageous imams too don't consider religious jews as wrong, notably imam Palazzi from italy, and imam Mohammed Tawhidi from Australia. Naturally they are overwhelmingly labeled by most muslims as 'sell-outs' and 'zionist shills'...
But the fact remains, if one focuses on Go'd -instead of His messangers, monotheism IS able to bring unity to our planet! ☮✡