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[C Russell <mtbetter AT yahoo.com>]

> lurine AT softcom.net writes:
> 
> Ray,  Mohammed was a Christian that left the
> teachings because he was not
> happy  with the turn they were taking.  Even basic
> grammar school  history
> books have that info in them.

Check out http://www.muhammad.net/bio/profbio.html

Mohammed reacted against polytheism, not Christianity.
 

"From the point of view of religion, Arabia was
idolatrous; only a few individuals had embraced
religions like Christianity, Mazdaism, etc. The
Meccans did possess the notion of the One God, but
they believed also that idols had the power to
intercede with Him. Curiously enough, they did not
believe in the Resurrection and Afterlife. They had
preserved the rite of the pilgrimage to the House of
the One God, the Ka'bah, an institution set up under
divine inspiration by their ancestor Abraham, yet the
two thousand years that separated them from Abraham
had caused to degenerate this pilgrimage into the
spectacle of a commercial fair and an occasion of
senseless idolatry which far from producing any good,
only served to ruin their individual behaviour, both
social and spiritual."

I sincerely hope that elementary schools have not
gotten this wrong.

Cathy (in fl)
> 


                
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