Why idolatry annoys me and I am agnostic

13 Principles of Judaism
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/332555/jewish/Maimonides-13-Principles-of-Faith.htm

Shirk (Islam)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirk_(Islam)

Tawid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawhid

Spinoza's Censure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herem_(censure)

PHILOSOPHY - Baruch Spinoza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEeXjPiw54

Xenophanes famously noted that if horses could draw, they would draw their gods as horses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes#Theology

Akhenaten continued the cult of the Pharaoh, proclaiming himself the son of Aten and encouraging the Egyptian people to worship him. The Egyptian people were to worship Akhenaten, and only Akhenaten and Nefertiti could worship Aten directly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenism#Atenist_revolution

Social and Political Thought in Chinese Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-social-political/

Brahman and Atman: That Art Thou
http://pluralism.org/religions/hinduism/introduction-to-hinduism/brahman-and-atman-that-art-thou/

Compare the simplicity of the Shahada to the convoluted complexities of the Nicene creeed whose purpose only makes sense in the explanation I have given: of Christians wanting to be special and better than Jews and Muslims through their blasphemous and idolatrous doctrine of the Trinity which nobody really believes now anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada

The conceptual superiority and unity of the Koran and its source compared to the ragtag nature of Christian scripture: at the most conflicting accounts of events said to be by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as various epistles written decades after the death of Christ.  The Koran is believed by Muslims to be the directly transcribed Word of God addressing us in Arabic revealed through Muhammad while the New Testament is the reported speech and deeds of an executed revolutionary by different people with different accounts.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A7&version=KJV

Church of England’s Synod may abolish Holy Trinity to include Muslims
https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Church-of-Englands-Synod-may-abolish-Holy-Trinity-to-include-Muslims

Out of the ashes of Christianity will arise the phoenix of Islam in the form of Secular Koranism

In terms of religious observance:

Secular Koranism < Islam < Judaism

Secular Koranism requires no religious observance at all only that citizens living under a government operating under the principles of Secular Koranism obey the law.

Why do I not mention Christianity? Because all Christianity requires is that you spend your life making yourself believe or pretending to believe in the absurdity that Christ is also God, because the deal if you are Christian is that only Christians believe Christ is God, and only Christians go to heaven.

These days the Archbishop of Canterbury himself is so theologically ignorant that even he does not know he is supposed to believe in the Doctrine of the Trinity as he wittered on about sometimes doubting the existence of God though he is sure that Christ did really exist.

What is the point of having an Archbishop of Canterbury who is not even Christian?

If you have been a bad Christian and committed innumerable sins, then all you have to do is pay for a priest to have the last rites administered to you as you confess your sins and express remorse on your deathbed.

This is the reason why Christianity and Hypocrisy are said to go hand in hand.

It is not surprising therefore that such a corrupt religion - kept alive only by a corruptible and invariably corrupt clergy who are these days only interested in doing deals with PC Liberal governments rather than maintaining morality - has failed.

Islam entrusts the maintenance of morality to the rule of law under Koranic principles, which is a much more reliable way of maintaining morality.

If you think Christianity is now indistinguishable from being PC Liberalism there is a reason, and the reason was that the Church of England was created precisely because Henry VIII wanted the Church of England to be a creature of the state and HIS particular creature the better to do his bidding.

But never mind. Out of the ashes of Christianity will arise the phoenix of Islam in the form of Secular Koranism.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/secular-koranism.html

Why would anyone be a Christian now?

It has been pointed out that the Arabs are also a Semitic race and to call hatred of Jews antisemitism does not make that much sense.

It is very simple really. Both Jews and Muslims deny the Trinity. While hatred of the Jews began with the Catholic Church about 20 centuries ago, Christians in Europe would no doubt have hated Muslims too if they had been around, because they also deny the Trinity. The Unitarians were also horribly persecuted.

It is very easy for an intelligent and educated man familiar with Christian doctrine to mock and attack the veracity and its purpose of the Trinity and very difficult for Christians no matter how clever and educated to defend it.

The Unitarians were also persecuted by Trinitarians. One can understand why one might get angry with someone else about some belief of moral consequence, but to persecute someone else because he believes God is one rather than your three is insane, wicked and primitive.

No wonder the Catholics decided to teach these pesky Jews and Muslims a lesson through the Inquisition.

It has always the Christian Church's position that if one did not believe in the Trinity one is not a Christian and shall not be saved, for only Christians go to heaven and bad Christians can be forgiven if they believe in the Trinity and repent.

The bargain the early Catholic Church struck with early Christians was that if they accepted the Trinitarian "explanation" of Christ's divinity they would go to heaven if they were regular church-goers and repented of their sins.

Is there a moral dimension to this belief? Methinks not. It is clearly a CORRUPT bargain. But there are those who would even now support this lie, because they must feel at all costs different and better than Jews and Muslims even when reason must tell them that Christianity is clearly an inferior religion, and inferior because it is cowardly, hypocritical, irrational, fanatical and fundamentally unjust.

The Enlightenment only came about when Western man decided to take the Bible with a very large pinch of salt.

The Koran on the other hand has rules that are easy to understand and a very low entry threshold. Even a non-Muslim can say the shahada without doing any injury to his beliefs. You don't need to be a Muslim to recognise that, if you believe in God, then you would necessarily believe that there is no God but God, and that Muhammad is the messenger of this God.

Compare this to the farrago of nonsense that is the Nicene creed and the 21st century identification of Christianity as the religion of the militaristic NATO members whose nations are riddled with paedophiles, feminists and single mothers wanting to promote gay marriage all over the world. http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/does-archbishop-of-canterbury-think.html

Who would be a Christian now, except one who is very stupid, chauvinistic and very stubborn who will do anything, including deny the truth and refuse to discuss it, in order to pretend that the religion of his ancestors must be the best simply because it is the religion of his ancestors? This is so even when he has seen how utterly useless it now is in maintaining the morality of his people because of its corrupt priesthood who regard the Church as a source of income and employment while they subvert its teachings at the State's behest.

is based on a book by Ian Wilson who, after having written a book explaining how Jesus "became divine" declared himself to be a Catholic still. The Trinity is not a doctrine that you can understand without ceasing to be a Christian, if you are someone capable of facing the truth.  

The form of Anglican Islam will be reassuringly Christian

http://islaminchina.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/islam-in-china-pictures-the-great-mosque-of-guangzhou/

I will tell you my idea of Anglican Islam. It is basically everything in the Book of Common Prayer that does not contradict the Koran. People would still go to church, sing hymns, celebrate Xmas, but what they will no longer do is affirm or refer to the doctrine of the Trinity or practice the ritual of pretending to drink Christ's blood and eat his flesh. Bells will continue to be rung in churches all over England. The Nicene creed will no longer be recited. Sermons will be proper sermons based the exhortations and prohibitions of God using current affairs and news stories to drive the point home.

SIN - especially Slut Single Mums - WILL BE CONDEMNED, NOT TOLERATED.

Any reference to the Trinity and the divinity of Christ in hymns and carols will be removed and replaced with other suitable words.

Priests will continue to wear their cassocks, vicars their dog collars, but the Lefties, feminists, Commies and the openly gay will be slung out.

Now tell me what is wrong with this idea?

Abdal Hakim Murad will be my Ayatollah of Cambridge.  I will let him appoint the Ayatollahs of York and Canterbury, I think.

Proposed Ayatollah of Cambridge

If he is really really really good he might be able to take up residence in Hampton Court, if I have anything to do with anything, and live a Cardinal Wolsey sort of life, without the unhappy ending, because he deserves it and is worth it.