A good description of the difference of Islam and Christianity

Allah seems entirely the creation of Muhammad, what a flawed human thinks a god should be.

Islam is not unlike every single man made religion on the planet with mankind trying to ascend to God through their own efforts rather than accepting what God has already done for them on their behalf for both salvation and relationship, and it’s driven by what infects all of humanity, our own self righteous desire to earn, or deserve our standing with our creator. The common denominator in them all, even the so called Christian variants of religion, is in what man is going to do for God rather than what God has done for mankind. One nets nothing but a lifetime of exhaustion and uncertainty on the hamster wheel, and the other peace and security in our creator. God sacrificed His life for us. We don’t sacrifice our life for Him to be saved.

Islam seems like a religion written by a pervy dude, mostly because it was.


In Christianity, the reward is the Lord himself.

In Islam, the reward is getting laid a bunch.

Whether you buy the story of the angel, Gabriel commanding Muhammed to "recite", there's no doubt of Judaism as well as some Christian inferences in the Koran. But that's where any similarities stop overall.

Muhammed was targeting largely illiterate and semi nomadic types who had no real exposure to monotheistic religion although there had been touches of it like the Yemeni who had Jewish influences and there were Yemeni Jews in the area, no doubt. But largely you had illiterate types as opposed to those in the Roman world and Hebrew world where being able to read was more common, you had to be able to read from the Torah as a prerequisite for Bar Mitzvah. Also Christianity was spread more by educated types more than the masses. Paul was educated, St. Mark and St Luke were all educated men in their own right. Islam was not a religion spread from top down literate types.

Who's going to enforce it?

72 virgins

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Whether you buy the story of the angel, Gabriel commanding Muhammed to "recite", there's no doubt of Judaism as well as some Christian inferences in the Koran. But that's where any similarities stop overall.

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They also believe Jesus will return and defeat the Antichrist.

He is a 4th highest prophet in Islam. Muhammad, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Noah.

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Early Christian scholars labeled Islamists/Muslims as Christian heretics

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They are. Its obvious Muhammed hung out or interacted with Christian Arians in his travels, which would explain the weird beliefs they have on the trinity, jesus, mary, etc.

Eh, by the time of Muhammed, Arians were largely gone. They were a big thing until about the early 400's but were largely discredited or defeated by the Western Catholics and the Emperor Theodosius as well as Gregory of Nyssa and a few others.