The Story of God 2/3

The Story of God
Documentary, Part 2. host: Lord Robert Winston


NO GOD BUT GOD
[tags: Monotheism:  Judaism, Christianity, Islam]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/

Excerpts:

Abraham tomb is in Hebron
a Philistinaian control town in the west-bank.


Monotheism began with the choice...
gods.



JUDAISM

And this God has complex and intriguing character...

But He is first and foremost a jealous God.


Accroding to the Bible,
3000 people were killed that day (calf worship)
it was monothesim first recoreded massacre.

It was here (Jerusalem)
And here alone when God was Israel
could be worshiped to full extent.
This was the monotheism taken to the ultimate conclusion.

One God worshiped by one people
in one city in one temple.

There's nothing quite like it
before or since in the history of religion.

They were afraid the Temble will become the object of worship on his own right
a kind of golden calf build in bricks and water.

... The pattern of invasions, defeat and exile were
played out again and agian in the land of Israel
for more than 700 years.
After the Assyrians came the Babylonian,
after the Babylonian came the Persian,
and then the Greeks, and finally the Romans.





CHRISTIANITY


Christianity is the direct descended of Judiaism,
it started out as Jewish Cult,
and the first Chrisitains were Jews.

It was Paul - one of Jesus's disciple,
who took the Jewish cult of Chrisitianity
and brought it to non-jewish or gentile world ...

Constantine was the first Christian emperor.




ISLAM

The word Islam means peace,
it means surredner, it means acceptance...
it means a lot of things.
But essentially it means 'surrender.'
So the essence of Islam is submission to the will of God.



Shiite's believe that the example of Ali
and his martyr son Hussain provide the only
certain pathway to Allah.

Shitte's believe God chose prophet's son in law Ali
to succeed Muhammad as Imam - the spiritual and political leader of Imam.
But in the power struglle of following the Prophet's steps
Ali and his family were pushed aside.

... that's the question that devides the Islam this day.



Ashrah commomorates the decisve phase in struggle of control of Islam
The Death of Ali's son Hussain
in the battle of Karbala,
outnumbered, surrounded, and dying of thirst,
Hussain and his followers refused to surrender,
and was slaughtered.

YA HUSSAIN YA HUSSAIN YA HUSSAIN ...



Jurisdiction interpretation and Spiritual interpretation of Islam
There are two trends of Islam
the juristic interpretation of Islam and the spiritual interpretation of Islam.
The juristic interpretation - people who emphasise the rule of conduct
the form of your life, you have to pray in particular fashion,
sit in particular, eat in particular fashion, sleep even in particular fashion,
and the many of these jurists are the ones who become the fundamentalists,
who become insistence try to control other people's conduct.
The mystics on other hand say O look ... .... used to Islam in mare forms with no sincerity
we accept the rules of conduct, but they're not as important as the real sincerity,
because what is the meaning of going up and down if you don't believe.


Every religion has its sacred book
but it's almost impossible to overstate
How sacred the Quran is to Muslims.

It is not just about God,
It is directly from God.