I’m not sure which message board this came out of, but it’s pretty dang funny. I lol’d. A lot.
If you can’t read it, it says:
No, Moslems don’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. The nthe Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.
Jews like the first movie, but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third one doesn’t count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much they started writing fanfiction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.
Yes, that sums it up nicely! – Now explain why everyone fights about it?
P.S – This looks like a meme in the making!
LOL! Love the fanfiction bit.
I thought this was soo funny I Fwd it as an email, something I don’t often do!
@Tim – The fanfic bit was what had me in stitches for ages. It’s a brilliant rundown of the major world religions. Now…how would you go about fitting other religions/non-religions into this paradigm?
Seems to me that the creationist/evolution faction are watching two versions of the same movie, one of which was the director’s cut.
Technically the Qu’ran retcons both of them since it claims that Ishmael was the true heir of Abraham.
yeah definitely, you all are idoits. Don’t assume crap.
@fayyaad well i think the atheist realize it’s just a movie
LOL at the fanfic part. Very smart. A little off for the third movie though. It would make more sense if the third movie reimagines the whole story and pisses off all the convention-going fans.
Have you checked out the Baha’i Faith? It makes sense out of all the majoor religions as well as unifying them.
@Teri: [citation needed]
Its from the SomethingAwful forums.
** Each sequel worse than the next **
Actually, the first film got written, directed, and produced by Zoroaster (Zarathustra) in about 1200 BCE — long before the jewish sequel. (Search term: Zoroastrianism)
“The children of the light” and “the children of darkness” join in metaphysical-moral battle. Everyone must take a side. Either Ahura Mazda (good god) will prevail or Ahriman (bad god).
So the world (universe) becomes a moralized battlefield — all the so-called great monotheisms derive from this heady myth.
Each display of masculine self-righteousness worse than the next.
So much for the pretensions of jewish, xian, and moslem imitators — we’re stuck with a miserable excuse for a divinity.
“God” ought to nauseate everyone in the MidEast and the West — but even though “he” is dead, no one notices.
no2ndhandgod
Don’t forget, amongst the Christians, the Catholics embraced the expanded universe, whereas the Protestants denounced it as noncanonical.
Almizaan
Yes Islam is the best theoretically, but in practice as in all religions has to liberalize.
Mormon gross Fanfiction in the 19th century is irrational rubbish