Islam and Christanity Conflicts

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Islam and Christanity Conflicts

When you are born into a world in which the two biggest religions on the globe are fighting the same battle they have been fighting for a thousand years you start to question the belifs of these two religions. If they both preach peace, why do we get war? I wonder what Jesus or Muhammad would say if they were alive today. Christanity, Islam, and Judaism are three of the most closely related religions in the world because they all see Abraham and other patriarcal figures in the bible as their spirtual ansestors. However, their points of similarity are no guarentee the followers will get along. In fact, most of the religiously motivated conflicts are between Muslims and Christans. All religions have important elements that play a part in the religion itsself these are Belifs, Community, and Central myths. These three topics are the basis of a religion and provide foundation upon which people create new objects, set up a new system of law, or build empires..

Christanity started in 30 CE and grew out of judaism. (Molly 343)It's hard to compare Chirstanity to any other religion because of the wide range of practices among christans. These practices vary between the many branches: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox churches, the Anglican communion and the tens of thousands of Protestant faith groups. The Thousands of groups of protestants are divided into Libral and Conservative wings. "Christanity is the religion of 33% of the population making it the largest religion in world. Christianity is growing at a rate of 2.3% increase each year."(Consultants)

Islam started in 622 CE and is the second largest religion in the world.(M...

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...e by having a feast. Finally the last pillar requires a pilgrimage to Mecca. This pilgrimage is called a Hajj and each Muslim is required to make this journey once in a life time. Each year two million people make this trip. (Molloy 443) Like Buddhism Islam has broken into branches, the two major branches are Sunni and the Shiites Although all Muslims are supposed to get along Sunnis and Shiites often disagree on weather a leadership of Islam should be political or religious.

In conclusion, Most of the world's religious conflicts arise between these two religion despite how similar the two are. Both communities are striving for the ultimate goal of world peace trough religion but if we keep up the way we resolve our problems there will be no people left to enjoy the peace.

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