Angela Tilby denies the Trinity and denounces idolatry?

http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/tftd111220.mp3

http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mq9h2

Judaism is about TRIBALISM, the Koran is about a WORLD COMMUNITY OF ENLIGHTENED NATIONS

Judaism is about TRIBALISM, the Koran is about, first, NATIONALISM, then INTERNATIONALISM or a WORLD COMMUNITY of enlightened nations.

Oh, and Christianity is about proclaiming a lie as if it were the truth and then burning heretics who disagree with you when you used to take your religion seriously, or tolerating every single fucking degenerate and destructive idea and practice when you don't.

According to Christians, Christ was more than a prophet of God, he was God Himself.

So, God seduced Mary (in the way that Zeus had a habit of doing to mortal women listed at http://devdutt.com/the-infidelities-of-zeus/), gave birth to Himself, and then sacrificed Himself to save us from our sins.

You have to believe all that, or you go to hell or suffer the Inquisition.

Go that?

Do you think the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury or your vicar believes in this CRAP?

That was why the Christians were horrid to Jews and Muslims. They suspected that their beliefs aroused incredulity, and then contempt and mockery.

What do you think the Inquisition was all about? To shut up those who would mock and question, and of course as a means for Catholics to intimidate the Protestants, who did not accept the authority of the Pope.

This is the SHIT that Christianity was built on, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Why is the doctrine of the Trinity so necessary for Christians? Because without it they would be no different from - shock horror - the Jews (whom they hate and fear for being cleverer than they) or worse the Muslims, whom they slaughtered by the thousand during the Crusades.  

The people whom you hate most are those whom you have most wronged.

They also needed to put a spin on the fact that Christ ended up being crucified by the Romans, which is pitiful and not befitting of a prophet of God.

Muhammad, who lived to a ripe old age, was a leader of men, a successful revolutionary and had wives and children.

If Western civilisation is failing now, it is because of their religion that encourages cowardice, hypocrisy, prevarication, irrationality, denial and then blind violent rage.

Because Christianity makes you stupid, the Christians always felt that the Jews had one up on them.  Because they were in the majority, the Christians would kick them around and have the occasional pogrom to move them on, just to show them who was boss.

Very hypocritically, Christians and liberals like to pretend that they saved the Jews from Hitler, when, the truth was that if the Allied soldiers believed for one moment that they were risking life and limb for the sake of the Jews, they would have downed tools and mutinied.

After the war, the Christians felt very sorry for the Jews and guilty for being nasty to them for so many centuries, so they decided to give Israel to the Jews.  That was the classic example of robbing Peter (Arab Muslim) to pay Paul (Jew).  Christian Europe also had the greatest contempt for the Muslims they slaughtered during the Crusades and the weakness of the Ottoman Empire, who represent Islam to them.

It is not surprising that the Jews should now wish to exploit the Christians for their hypocrisy and their guilt and it is no surprise that the Christians are reluctant to admit their hypocrisy and their guilt.  That is really the secret of the success of the Israel Lobby in all Western nations.

But all this is being done at the expense of the Muslims both in the West and in their own lands, who are understandably getting a bit restive.

Illiterate "village" Muslims who are heartily despised in the West are not perhaps the best salesmen for Islam, but even the supposedly backward religion of a backward people have helped Asians to quickly colonise Britain, and it is the white British who are now turning into backward sluts and bastards with low standards of education and behaviour, for their religion  - Christianity and/or Liberalism - is not fit for the purpose of making them respect the institutions of Marriage and Family.

The desecration of the institutions of Marriage and Family through Feminism is of course the real cause of the decline and fall of Western civilisation.

Most white people are now hopeless addicted to cheap sex, easy women and their welfare state that makes this possible.   Such is the pathetic degraded state of depraved modern white man that even the BNP - a political party that is supposed to promote the interests of the white race - have admitted that they are afraid of the slut single mums who breed disabled and illegitimate children at taxpayers' expense, who are eating what is good that is left Britain out of house and home.  Indeed, they expelled a member (me) precisely for pointing this out and refusing to shut up about it, even as the prospect of being the 2012 BNP London Mayoral Candidate was being dangled before her eyes.

The truth is I do not mind not being the soon to be fucked and forgotten unsuccessful BNP London Mayoral Candidate than to be for one moment be intimidated into silence because I wanted some gaudy but ultimately worthless bauble of office, and wish Ken Livingstone the best of British luck next year, for I know he has been, like me, against the last three wars in Afraqbya.  

As an atheist and an analyst of the creation and development of religions, it is quite clear to me that Christianity was an unsuccessful attempt to improve upon Judaism.  The final draft is of course Islam. (Don't let the Bahais tell you otherwise either. These people are TERRIFIED of discussing politics and shut up whenever anything controversial is being discussed, so they are pretty much useless unless all you want to do is pray, feel good about yourself for being a virtuous person and not get into trouble with the authorities for saying what you believe to be the Truth.)

There is nothing wrong with the Koran, only the people who read and interpret it with insufficient understanding and then refuse it to discuss it rationally, who call themselves Muslim - the ignorant, illiterate, backward village Muslims who cannot even read their own Holy Book or do not understand it even if they claim to have done so.

The Koran, by claiming to be the literal Word of God encourages literacy and the development of legal principles.

The New Testament is vagueness and ambiguity.

The Old Testament is undeniably harsh with its long list of infractions that would attract the death penalty.  http://www.wvinter.net/~haught/Bible.html

Sharia law is just law based on Koranic principles. Any country can have its own version of Sharia law.  Sharia law in the UK would be subject to UK legal traditions infused by Koranic principles.

All you have to do to have Sharia law is make it compulsory for UK law students to pass an exam on the Koran.  There is no need to convert anyone at all.

Sorted.

I would be happy to set the exam questions on the subject of Koranic Knowledge.

Mystery of the Trinity solved (by Claire Khaw of the BNP who supports AV) in a tweet of 78 characters

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_(Masaccio)

Claire Khaw
@RevRichardColes @canontonymac I wonder if it is possible to discuss the mysteries of the Trinity by Twitter.
16 Apr

@RevRichardColes
Richard Coles
@1party4all @canontonymac There's challenge - the mystery of the trinity in 140 character chunks.
19 Apri


@RevRichardColes @canontonymac "The Trinity is the clear blue water Xtians put between themselves and the Jews." I make that 78 characters.
19 Apri


@RevRichardColes @canontonymac @SundayProgramme @williamcrawley Have explained mystery of Trinity in 78 characters.


@1party4all
Claire Khaw
@RevRichardColes @canontonymac @SundayProgramme @williamcrawley Trinity solved by BNP member.
19 Apri



@1party4all
Claire Khaw
@simon3862 @faisalislam Have explained the mysteries of the Trinity in one tweet of 78 characters. Bet @Phillip_Blond can't do that.
19 Apri


@1party4all
Claire Khaw
@cathynewman Have explained the mysteries of the Trinity in one tweet of 78 characters. Bet @Phillip_Blond can't do that
19 Apri 

Christians *should* be ashamed of their religion

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334554/Former-Archbishop-Lord-Carey-Were-ashamed-Christmas.html?ITO=1490
 
Christianity is now the despised religion of a declining civilisation, a religion that has completely failed to protect its adherents against feminisation and liberalisation or in any way reinforce family values through the institution of marriage. The sooner it goes and is replaced by something that actually works, the better.

If only there were a party that dared to offer in its manifesto a promise to disestablish the Church, now full of PC women and gaily socialist priests. It would be utterly appropriate for the BNP to propose this, as the Church of England has voted to discriminate against BNP members and forbid its clergy to become BNP members. 

What is the point of a religion that says you won't get to heaven unless you believe Christ is God?

They will of course pretend that that ain't so, that a Christian heaven is an equal opportunities heaven and doesn't distinguish between the saintly and the sinful. As long as you can bring yourself to say that you believe that Christ is God you'll get in. As long as you can bring yourself to proclaim a lie as if it were the truth, you'll get in.  What kind of fucked up religion is that?  




Perhaps that is why Christians are constantly mouthing off that Jesus is Lord.  They think that if they say it often enough - even if they don't believe - someone idiot is going to want to believe in this crap because to a fool and a knave, telling a lie to get into heaven is easier than living the good life.  

That is why Christianity is so often linked to hypocrisy.   

Once enough people see through this amoral and hypocritical bargain, decline and disbelief was inevitable.

The only reason why the PC extremists pick on Christians is because Christians are forever turning their cheeks to be slapped.  As it is, they merely despise Christians but they hate and fear Muslims.  

I myself would rather be hated and feared than treated with contempt by the despicably cowardly and hypocritical liberal establishment who consist mainly of those who believe in degenerate free love, in tolerating single parenthood, female promiscuity, showing endless tolerance to everything that is societally toxic, who want to allow homosexuals the right to get "married" and have been systematically cultivating failure for far too long now.  

Why Islam is stronger and more stable than Christianity

Christianity is based on a lie, ie that Christ is God. If you can't bring yourself to say that, you are not a true Christian but just a Cultural Christian. A religion that requires its adherents to proclaim a lie as if it were a truth will soon come to grief, and so it has proven.

The Koran accepts the Virgin Birth but rejects the Trinity - the concept that "explains" Christ's divinity.

This perfectly demonstrates its slippery pragmatism.

Indeed, it is through a study of the Koran that paradoxically makes it clear that God also serves the interests of atheists, if only they could bring themselves to acknowledge the most powerful concept conceivable by Man.

It would not in any case be untrue to say that the concept of God certainly exists. Indeed, this is not even controversial.

God is there to be used, to assist us in our morality, politics, government and law, whether we believe He actually exists or not. If we do not use God for ourselves, others will use it against us. 

Liberals, ie atheists, even as they wallow in the filth they have created and refuse to clean up, are too proud to use God.  

Pride, as we all know, is a deadly sin. 

Why the Koran rejects the Trinity

Christianity is the religion of women and slaves, Nietzsche said.

It insists that its adherents proclaim the lie of the trinity, ie that Jesus is the Divine Begotten Son of God, because their very salvation depends on it.

You can imagine what doing this for a whole lifetime would do to your character. You really would be completely stupefied by the effort or be such a practitioner of deceit and hypocrisy you would have deceived yourself on most important matters of morality, as well as made yourself unable to tell the difference between a truth and a lie.

Hitler's contribution to the establishment of the state of Israel should be acknowledged

If it hadn't been for Hitler Zionism would still be dead in the water. Why do Zionists never acknowledge Hitler's contribution to the establishment of the State of Israel? The laws against Holocaust Denial are there to prevent the denial of Hitler's massive contribution of 5 to 7 million Jews.

When they celebrate the birth of their nation, does it occur to them to celebrate Hitler's birthday too? (It is 20 April 1889 if anyone's interested.)

This was what made Western Christian guilt kick in after they acknowledged centuries of being nasty to the Jews. Anti-Semitism was and remains endemic in the West. (It should be pointed out that the Semitic races include Arabs too. Hatred of Jews and Muslims remains sustained and visceral in 21st century Culturally Christian Europe.)

Now, is there something about Trinitarian Christianity that makes Christians particularly intolerant of any forensic analysis of its doctrine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_Kingdom

There used to be laws that made it very inadvisable to deny the Trinity if you want to hang on to your job or your life.

Why would people wish to deny the Trinity? Because it is reasonable to do so, I would have thought. It is such a dishonest and irrational doctrine that many ignorant white people who call themselves Christians are not even aware that they are supposed to believe in it. This is because of the "bums on pews" policy of desperation that lets anyone in, promoted by an Anglican Church who represent a religion that is no longer fit for purpose.

All the Abrahamic faiths are meant to promote family values. Anglican Christian doctrine does not quite manage this, does it?

Many Christians are made to recite the creed without comprehension. You can be sure it exists because it is only the non-European Christians who know what it's all about. They at least know what the deal is: believe that Christ is the Divine Son of God and you will be saved from hell, whatever your sins.

Still not quite getting it?

Let me simplify it then:

"It is not enough to believe in God. You have to believe that Christ is also Divine Son of God. Sorry, but this the non-negotiable essence of Christianity. That is why the Jews, Muslims and Unitarians are gonna roast in hell. The Inquisition was to save these people from themselves."

The Inquisition was what happened when too many Jews and Muslims started denying the Trinity. Only something like the Inquisition could shut them up good and proper.

The Koran explicitly denies the trinity because it is irrational and amoral. To say God is One in Three is still polytheism and idolatry. Well, it is, isn't it?

Does it sound a bit like a liberal democracy invading other countries to save them for themselves? For their own good? Like Iraq and Afghanistan? You betcha!

Christian guilt thus saw it is as politic to rob the land of Peter Arab to pay Paul Zionist as well as to conduct the occasional pogrom.

Why do the words "Christian" and "hypocrisy" go hand in hand?

We hate and fear the people we have wronged.

Does a religion that makes you declare a lie to be truth have an effect on your intellect and your morals and indeed your very civilisation?

It can be seen that the period of Roman decline can be linked to Constantine's conversion of his empire to the religion of women and slaves.

Is it not about time we disestablished the Church of England, and put something more fit for purpose in its place?

I don't suppose this country is quite ready for a Mosque of Britain, but it would probably be as well to start talking about it, to prepare the ground, rather as Cameron today is now gingerly preparing us for changes in our lifestyle expectations and what diminished expectations we ought to have have of the state for the next few decades ....

I can already think of a lecturer in divinity who would make an excellent Ayatollah of Cambridge.

The Holy Trinity Explained, Christianity Exposed

There is a meeting today (which I shall not be attending) discussing whether the Islamic contentions to the Trinity are justified, and if the Trinity really is contrary to monotheism, between a Muslim and a Christian speaker.

I hope however that the following points will be made.

The Trinity "explains" Christ's divinity. Christians are not allowed to question God's mysteries. If they did they would find themselves being accused of heresy and blasphemy and liable to be burnt at the stake in the days when they took their religion seriously. Christians are therefore asked to believe in a "black box" theory that they are not allowed to question. It is no wonder then that "Christian" and "hypocrisy" so frequently go together.

Christ's divinity is necessary to Christians because otherwise he would just be another failed revolutionary who paid with his life.

Morally unimaginative people want, indeed NEED to believe in superstition and magic (and therefore Christ's divinity), just like children wish to believe in Santa and fairies.

Socrates was NOT a failed revolutionary, and he willingly died to make his point. He did not claim divinity, nor was divinity claimed on his behalf by his followers. His name lives on, arguably with more credit than Jesus's.

A philosopher who asks unanswerable questions is infuriating to the point of death.

Seeking the truth, speaking the truth and acting upon our knowledge of the truth is all it takes to be a revolutionary, though that is easier said than done. In the end, only prophets can do all three successfully.

The Prophet Muhammad was a more successful revolutionary than Jesus, and this is partly because he learnt from the mistakes of the previous ones and built upon their successes.

The Koran is a more comprehensive, clearer, more humane and easier to remember self-help guide to Mankind than the Bible.

Only pride and sloth - the most deadly of the seven deadly sins - prevents those us who deny this from acknowledging this.

Those who insist that Christianity is better yet refuse to read the Koran are stubbornly insisting that their Reliant Robin has a better chance of surviving an arduous journey than a four-wheeled vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine with its manual still in the glove compartment. For reasons of tradition, sentimentality and chauvinism, they cling to the old, incoherent and schismatic religion of their ancestors when a better version is immediately available.

Geert Wilders: "Islam is not a religion but an ideology"

Geert Wilders, the Dutch Islamophobe who believes Islam is evil, said:

"I view Islam not as a religion, but as a dangerous, totalitarian ideology - equal to communism and fascism. Aren't I allowed to say so?"

Since he has indeed said so, it falls to non-Islamophobes to deconstruct his statement.

The fact is that all religion is but ideology. It is a distinction without a difference, and made to appear profound by those who believe there to be a difference because they are two different words.

The Koran - a work of genius - has a verse for every situation advocating both sides of the argument, eg peace or war, forgiveness or punishment.

If Man is both good and evil, then it follows that his interpretation of God's Word will be done to suit his purpose, which may be good or evil.

As for Islam's alleged totalitarianism, this is a danger any ideology is vulnerable to. After all, all anti-discrimination legislation is in fact totalitarian, because it forbids us from acting as we would wish and infringes our freedom of association and contract. There are many who would now argue that feminism and PC-liberalism are in fact totalitarian.

Wilders is also concerned that Islam is political.

But of course it is, since every moral decision we make is in fact political, eg whether we speak up or shut up on any matter likely to upset someone, when we are with friends, family, employers, customers, and anyone at all with the power to help or hinder us.

In short, Wilders' claim that Islam has the potential to become (or is already) totalitarian should not be greeted with the shock and horror that it is now being received, but with a shrug of the shoulders.

Wilders is saying nothing new. All the things that we do and say and all ideologies have the potential to be wrong, foolish, evil and destructive.

We lose our liberty when we prefer unquestioning obedience to the cultivation of a questioning mind.

We lose our liberty when we choose not to question in order to be safe.

We keep our liberty when our political system encourages us to ask questions and receive proper answers.

We lose it when we choose not to offended and impose censorship on those who would offend us.

As I have said many times before, a one-party state or an Islamic state need not be totalitarian. In fact, it is less likely to be totalitarian if we take the teleological approach to God.

Why did Man create God?

To comfort him and to keep him safe from fear and harm.

By always asking ourselves what evil a verse of the Koran is intended to forbid, or what good it is intended to enjoin, we will be more likely to use wisely this excellent book for the guidance of humanity.

If being Muslim means attaining the peace of submitting to God, and that God is but Truth, Reality, Knowledge and Reason tempered with Mercy, then what is there not to like about Islam? I speak as an atheist believing that it is not in fact necessary to believe in God to be a good Muslim.

If the Islam we in the West see is not to our liking, then it is perhaps time for the West to seize the initiative, and appropriate the Koran in order to serve ourselves better.

Religion comes from the word "religare", the Latin of "to bind", to keep together a society that will always have a tendency to fragment and disintegrate, men (and women) being what they are and always will be.

Society will always need its adhesive, and for this reason God - the most powerful being Man could imagine - will always be used for political purposes.

It is invariably Christians who cannot accept or understand this truth, crippled by their knowledge of this meaningless statement Christ gave the Roman authorities to get himself out of trouble: "I render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and God that what is God's."

In contrast to this unconscionable separation, the Holy Trinity of Religion, Politics and Morality is implicitly acknowledged in the Koran.

It is only Christian Hypocrisy that denies this Truth.

If Muslims are perceived as primitive, dangerous and fanatical, it is only because they have distorted their religion and allowed it to be perverted to suit the purpose of their leaders, who are themselves corrupt, ignorant and mistaken.

If it were not for the fact that the West has lost its own sense of self-belief, it would seize this excellent book and use it for its own benefit, in a manner more creative, progressive and liberal (in the best sense of that word) than the ones who were born into this faith.

Comparative Religion

List and consider the defences a Muslim might use when faced with those who think Islam is a religion that compares unfavourably with Christianity and Judaism.

An Atheist's Theory of Prophets and Religion

JUDAISM TRIBAL AND RACE-BASED
Jews regard themselves as the Chosen People of God and Judaism is basically tribal. Jesus, a Rabbi, saw that it would benefit mankind to spread the benefits of monotheism to gentiles. Understandably, many Jews objected to this, probably because they felt it diluted or cheapened their religion.

"MY DAD IS GOD SO YOU BETTER LISTEN TO ME!"
To make his message more persuasive, Jesus claimed divinity. For this blasphemy he was crucified. But it was not that unusual to claim divinity. After all, Roman and Chinese emperors were worshipped as deities and so were Egyptian Pharoahs. A modified form of this was the divine right of kings, practised in more recent history by European monarchs.

THE MYSTERY OF THE HOLY TRINITY SOLVED
[It has been said that if you can explain it you are a heretic.]

Christians have never convincingly explained the mystery of Holy Trinity. The only way it could be convincingly explained is through a non-religious context of psychology, mythology and propaganda. It is the device through which Christ's message is made more appealing and more powerful. It also serves as his vehicle to divinity. (You see, it is not enough to portray Christ as a man who just died for his principles. People need more than this to want to accept his message. A man who died for all our sins is infinitely more appealing than one who has died for just his own principles.)

The mystery of the Holy Trinity is this: it "explains" and "proves" that Christ is divine. To enquire further is to commit heresy. In the olden days, you could be burnt at the stake for this.

A LIGHTER BUT MORE POWERFUL FORM OF MONOTHEISM - ISLAM
Muhammad's lighter and more powerful version of monotheism consisted of claiming divinity only for the Koran which Muhammad "revealed" or "recited" in his liftime when his followers needed the guidance of God in difficult and confusing times.

MUHAMMAD THE TECHNOCRAT?
The fact that it was taken down from one source and later standardised would at least make lawyers of those who could read and had to interpret the Koran. In the meantime it encouraged literacy, for that was necessary to receive the full benefit of the Koran - to read it for oneself. Islam does not require you to believe in the impossible and improbable, ie that Jesus is Son of God.

LOWER ENTRY REQUIREMENTS OF ISLAM
Through the Koran, fairly common-sensical teachings had the stamp of divinity. Conversion to Islam was easier, because it has lower "entry requirements" than Judaism and is not caught up in incoherent and mysterious trinitarianism - a theoretical device which "explains" the divnity of Christ. Disputes on interpretation could be resolved by referring to a form of words in a particular chapter and verse that is at least undisputed.

Not perfect, but better than before. Not perfect, but still progress!

FAITH AND REASON
While Jesus emphasised Faith (as he must necessarily have done to move it away from the then wholly ethnic basis of Judaism), Muhammad emphasised Reason, and the Tools of Reason: reading, writing, reference, authority and jurisprudence.

PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF MONOTHEIST RELIGIONS
Muhammad could not have developed Islam without first examining the life of Jesus and the form Christianity was taking in Muhammaden times.

Schism was and is the most noticeable characteristic of Christianity. Muhammad must have seen the effect of the disputes amongst Christians over the Holy Trinity - an incoherent theory that would have us accept that One is Three and Three is One (or "one for all, and all for one", like the Three Musketeers!). He cut the Gordian knot by denying its validity in the Koran, saying that Christ was just another mortal prophet with no divine attributes, just like Abraham, Moses, and himself of course!

AN OMNIPOTENT AND MORAL GOD
Christ certainly would not have been able to spread the benefits of a monotheist God, if Abraham had not conceived of it first. If not for Abraham, Moses would have had no single god to which to ascribe moral attributes with his Ten Commandments.

A SCIENCE OF RELIGION?
It can be seen therefore that there is a progressive nature to the monotheist religions. Islam was built on the foundations of Christianity and Christianity built on that of Judaism.

Subsequent prophets sought to improve and add to the teachings of previous ones, and this theory can only be grasped in a non-religious context. The same analogy applies to Hinduism and Buddhism.

THE PROBABLE ATHEISM OF ALL THE PROPHETS
Indeed, I would go so far as to claim that none of the prophets in fact believed in God. They merely had the wisdom to use this innate desire of all those who wished to believe in a loving and omnipotent God to make the world a better place. Ascribing to it moral attributes to the most powerful entity Man could imagine and describe - All-Powerful and All-Wise, Benovelent and Merciful - could perhaps indirectly encourage some of us to understand and indeed take on the attributes of God, ie to become stronger, wiser, kinder and be more forgiving.

To love God is to know God, to know God is to become one with Him.

The supreme irony of this is of course that most of what humanity worships was and is in fact man-made!

PYGMALION
The story of Pygmalion illustrates this beautifully. Pgymalion was a sculptor of extraordinary talent. He sculpted a woman so beautiful he fell in love with her/it. He loved it/her so much that it/she became real, for when he behaved as if she was real, she was real. That is precisely what Man has done with God throughout the ages.

The power of imagination, eh?

Judaism Explained before Easter

A recent decision by Orthodox Jews to bar a child of a mother who is a convert to Judaism from attending a Jewish school because the child was insufficiently Jewish explains exactly why Christ had such a problem with Judaism.

Unfortunately, he paid for his audacity with his life. His followers invented the story of his Resurrection and the "theory" of the Holy Trinity to make Christ's ignominious death less upsetting for those disposed to become Christians.

The Koran explicitly acknowledges Christ for extending monotheism to gentiles. Christ's crime, as seen by the Jewish priests, was in wishing to spread the benefits of monotheism to those not members of the Jewish tribes. It was Christ acting to end the Jewish monopoly on monotheism that resulted in his execution.

Muhammad developed on Christ's theme, ie that faith alone - not race - is sufficient to avail oneself of the benefits of monotheism. Christ must have concluded that, in order for a better world to be created, monotheism must not remain the exclusive preserve of the Jewish tribes. The Islamic concept of "ummah" - a community of Muslims united by a common belief that does not exclude anyone on grounds of race - is an excellent expression of this ideal. This is far more powerful, in the opinion of this atheist, than the racial exclusivity of the Jews and the Trinitarian incoherence of the Christians.

It would seem that Christianity and Islam share the same aim, that of making monotheism more accessible to others not born into the faith, while Orthodox Judaism has a tendency to be exclusive and restrictive. While Judaism requires a typical male convert to undergo circumcision - an eye-wateringly painful operation in the apprehension of the average male - Islam does not require this.

It was really all a dispute about intellectual property and copyright, folks!