Edip Yuksel

19 Questions for Christians Edip Yuksel

If Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were back today, Jews would condemn the first as an Anti-Semite, Christians would denounce the second as the Anti-Christ, and Muslims would revile the third as the Dajjal (The imposter).-Imagine a religion whose members worship the murder weapon, -perform rituals to pretend that they are drinking the blood and flesh of their heroic victim, -claim that 1+1+1 equals to 1, -adopt a word as their name which was used by none of the early followers, -misspell and mispronounce the name of their hero, -follow someone's teaching who was prophetically condemned by their hero, -accept a formula that was coined by a self-appointed commission 325 years after the founder, -sing love and peace yet be responsible for most of the blood-shed and weaponry in the world, -mobilize even children for centuries of barbarism called the Crusades, -sell parcels of heaven, -excommunicate scientists, -burn the first translator of their holy book, -burn women in the witch-hunt craze, -invent ingenious torture devices and torture many in their holy courts, -declare the earth as the flat center of the universe for more than a millennium, -lead and pray for colonialists, -defend and practice slavery and racism until the cause was lost, -mostly side with kings and the wealthy, -deny women from many of their rights, -condemn the theory of evolution, -support occupations and wars with jingoistic slogans... Yes, how can such a religion, with a fake name, with a fabricated doctrine, with bizarre pagan practices, and with such a miserable historical record and bitter fruits belong to God? How can it be attributed to a philosopher, to a peacemaker, to an advocate of the rights of the weak, to a human messenger of God?