The Religion of War and Peace; the difference between totalitarian and authoritarian

Islam is of course a religion of both peace and war. That is the beauty of the Koran, in my opinion. An argument for every conceivable situation. I don't know why the Muslims don't just come out and admit it. Nothing to be ashamed of, particularly as it regulated the treatment of prisoners of war with something not dissimilar to the Geneva Convention.

A little truth would be more disarming than hypocritically insisting that it is all about peace.

The peace they talk about is the peace you get after submitting to Reality and the Truth.

Of course many Islamophobes mischievously talk about it being a religion of subjugation.

In fact, it is quite clear that Islam while perceived to be authoritarian, ie an ideology under which one is expected to do what one is told, is in fact more liberal and humane than anything to be found in the Old Testament in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. Its principles are also clearer and easy to remember, unlike the New Testament.

It can easily be shown that Christianity is a totalitarian religion, ie an ideology under which one is expected to think as one is told, or else.

The Holy Trinity "explains" the divinity of Christ. To not believe in Christ's divinity means one is no longer Christian and it is one of the Mysteries that must not be questioned if one wishes to remain Christian, and also in order to avoid being burnt at the stake as a heretic, in the bad old days of the Inquisition and the Reformation.

Which is the more reasonable and improved version of monotheism I shall leave to your judgment.

Such a pity then that Muslims tend to give their religion a bad name, and make unattractive what is in fact attractive, by stubbornly associating it with beards and burqas ....