May all freepers forgive me for including the Muslims in this. I did it only to make my point. They are not even in the same league with Judaism and Christianity. Sunnis, Shiites, Sufis, whatever.
The basis of Judaism and Christianity is the same revealed word of God, the Tanach to the Jews, the Old Testament to Christians. Islam might have the same claim, however, the Koran is but a syncretistic amalgam, clearly bogus.
<< .... the Koran is but a syncretistic amalgam, clearly bogus. >>
No disagreement from me and I have studied it through nine different translations - and have, during around 70 visits to Iraq and with the willing assistance of devout Iraqi friends, struggled through it in Arabic.
The Koran gives itself away as being "but a syncretistic amalgam [And] clearly bogus" in scores of ways. But no more efficaciously that when it first says it is "given to prove the veracity of 'all that was given before' but was misunderstood by the sects" and then -- by reducing the Immaculate Conception to "and ['God'] said 'Be' and it was" and Jesus to "the first prophet after Muhummid" -- contradicts itself, repudiates the veracity of all that was given before -- and denies the Son of God.
Yep!
But a syncretistic amalgam [And] clearly bogus!