Islam has the same roots. It's born out of the same religion. I've studied both. They're very similar. Muslims even regard Jesus as one of their prophets.

You'd have to be deluded or uneducated to not see the similarity.

It's actually even more than that. Muslims even consider Jesus to be the savior of the Jews as well.

As for Christianity and Islam, neither of them are actually cults. A cult is something very specific:

A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members:

(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cult)

By definition Christianity and islam are excluded from this due to the fact that billions of followers for each can in no way be considered "a small group". As well as this, christians and muslims alone make up a majority of the world population, so it's also logically impossible for their beliefs to be widely considered as being "strange".

You're lying Lane.

You're lying Lane.

Nope.

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

Y'all are all stupid

Islam and Christianity don't have the same roots you imbecile.

Islam and Christianity don't have the same roots you imbecile.

Seriously? That's not even some obscure piece of information. That's common knowledge. You can easily look that up.

By definition Christianity and islam are excluded from this due to the fact that billions of followers for each can in no way be considered "a small group".

Well, actually, they're both "relatively small", since more folk are not Christians than are, and same for Islaam.

Relative to other belief systems, they are quite large.

Things that are not cults:

- Christianity, with all of its different forms.
- Islam, with all of its different forms.
- Atheism, because it doesn't worship anything.

Things that are cults:

- Some word that I don't want to be tracked for, it's root word is an antonym for ignorance.
- Satanism (Different than atheism)

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Question:

Why do English speakers tend to say Allah - one "A", but Muslims tend to have two "A"s?

>Islam and Christianity have the same roots.

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Well, actually, they're both "relatively small", since more folk are not Christians than are, and same for Islaam.

When taken together they actually do constitute a majority of people at 54.7%, but even if you take them as individual groups, they aren't small. One in three people for christianity or one in four for islam are not small minorities.

And this is taking a "Not christians and not muslims are a monolothic group" approach. The fact is that there is no other religious group that even comes close to the adherence of either christianity ofrIslam. Currently hinduism comes in at a distant third with 500 million less adherents than islam and approximately 1.1 billion less than christianity, and this is the only one that manages to make 50% adherence of either christianity or islam.

Buddhism is much farther behind, and has around four times less adherents that christianity and a third that of islam, and Taoism and chinto have something like 10-20x less adherents. And those are the only ones that have more than 100 million adherents, since when you go farther down then that it gets a bit ridiculous.

If we're speaking in "relative" terms then christianity and islam are most definitely not small groups, especially if taken together. And in raw numbers, they number in the billions.

even if you take them as individual groups, they aren't small. One in three people for christianity or one in four for islam are not small minorities.

Maybe they're not small, but yeah, they're outnumbered. Relative to other faiths, no, they're not minorities.

Outnumbered ≠ Small, also Minority ≠ Small. To be a cult you have to be a small group as that is literally part of how we define "Cult". If a belief becomes mainstream, it loses it's Cultness.

both christianity and Islam evolved from judaism

If a belief becomes mainstream, it loses it's Cultness.

Agreed. But yeah, Islam's the worst. Mostly because the majority of it's followers still think beheading gays and shooting cartoonists is fine.
Say what you will about the Crusades, but Christians today don't walk into a town and start killing all those who aren't "saved".

And Islam also feels more politically motivated than religious. There's plenty of lines in the Qur'an about killing infidels unless they give you money, which is then used as income for the Islamic State.

kek no they didn't Snoop

It does, Karl. In the Quran and New Testament, Old testament characters and stories are featured.

Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David , the son of Abraham (therefore implying that the Christians knew of the Old Testament and gave Jesus the lineage of those important characters)

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. pretty similar to Genesis 1:27, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

James 2:23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. (again, the New Testament states Abraham believed in God, as does the old Testament)

Matthew 22:32, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

Luke 18:20 and Mark 10:19 both state the 10 commandments, and both say "know the commandments", implying they came before Jesus.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Matthew 1:23 Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”


And for the Quran, 5:44: It was We who revealed the Torah (to Moses); therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the Prophet who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah’s will, by the Rabbis and the Doctors of Law.



In both the New Testament and the Quran, Old Testament Stories are referenced. Not to mention they imply being written before, as both the Quran and New Testament imply that their followers know the Old Testament.