if you wish to seek to understand a ideology you must see its transformation
By zevi770 · December 16, 2015
for example, in the beginning people worshiped idols and believed that everything is o.k. – in other words, idols were literally a license to kill (as all the idols sought was power, so if you sacrificed to them and had power, you were entitled.)
Along came Abraham and said “there is only a single force and only what he says is acceptable” – everything else is either stupid or cruel.
From Abraham’s faith a couple of breakaways happened:
Eastern philosophy which ironically stems back to the Kabbalistic side of Abraham (as the Torah teaches, God sent Abraham’s sons to the east with false names of God, for) eastern philosophy is in effect a smarter version of idolatry, as it gives a person panaches (“nirvana” etc. but doesn’t create moral obligation, say charity, responsibility to others etc.)
Then we have Christianity – this ironically had a very positive effect, for being Biblically based, brought many ethical structures to the western word – from law and order, marriage – an entire civilized structure – though in a subtle sense retained the idolatrous idea – “all you need to do is believe, and you are saved.”
The ultimate bizarre concoction from the Abraham faith was by the madman Mohammad (as the Ramabam, perhaps the most preeminent Doctor in history describes him) for in his delusions he mixed insanity with sanity, aspiration for power, with noble ideals.
Hence in effect, Islam has no real logical foundation as it is open to interpretation, which ranges, as we see, from belief in one God and whatever understanding of Islamic law (there are many many schools of jurisprudence from Islam) to complete imitation of Mohammed’s lifestyle, as we see in isis (who dress exactly like him and copy his) raping, complete disregard for human life in its savage implementation of Islamic law.
Interestingly as we know, the Cristian Europe went through a period of “enlightenment” where the official religion was “don’t tell me who I can’t screw.”