Mohammed confessing to Christianity

Ibn Warraq

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fortyseven said:
I never knew Christian leaders equated Islam with idolatry that's so messed up it's funny.
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I don't think I'd count him as a Christian leader but a few years ago a General Boykin made headlines when it turned out at a church he'd said when talking about Muhammed Farrah Aidiad, one of Somalia's warlords, he stated that Aidiad "worships an idol."

Naturally, this caused the Bush administration quite a few headaches. It was also a bit surprising since while most of the military's leadership are Christians most tend to be mainline EC types, not Evangelists, though things have been changing a bit.
 
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Bulldawg85

Turtledove

Turteldove has a series about this. Where the Byzantine Empire survived because Mohammed had been captured as a young man and brought to the Byzantine Empire where he became a monk.
 

Ran Exilis

Wendell said:
This prompts the question of how different might Islam be if revealed to someone other than Muhammad?
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This reminds me to one of the more unusual ideas I've had...

At one point, I was thinking about possible POD's to butterfly away Islam,
when I at one point thought "what if he was just born as a girl?"

Then I had one of those "Wait a sec.....aha!" moments, and the rest of the evening,
I was thinking about an analogue to Islam that was founded by a woman.

I didn't really work it out, though, but it remains an interesting idea nonetheless...
 

Max Sinister

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Interesting idea. Only problem if you want to work it out: There's no big religion founded by a woman (only examples I can think of are Theosophy, the Prana religion of the light-eaters/breatharians, and the German sect "Universal Life" - crackpot sects, in other words. No good recommendation.)
 

Ran Exilis

Max Sinister said:
Interesting idea. Only problem if you want to work it out: There's no big religion founded by a woman (only examples I can think of are Theosophy, the Prana religion of the light-eaters/breatharians, and the German sect "Universal Life" - crackpot sects, in other words. No good recommendation.)
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I admit that no OTL major religion was founded by women, but nonetheless there are religions
(mainly traditional religions) where women traditionally have an important role.

And regarding the fact that there have been plenty of smaller sects and religious movements in history that were founded and led by women (including some that where not so crackpot), I don't really see a good reason why a religion founded and led by a women could not become a world religion, if given a good chance.


EDIT: another interesting note: the idea of female prophets is not entirely unknown in the Abrahamic religions;
the Old Testament mentions several Hebrew female prophets.

Islamic scriptures do not mention any female prophets,
although many Islamic scholars agree that that does not exclude any female prophets from the Muslim perspective.
 

htgriffin

MrHola said:
What would be consequences if Prophet Mohammed confessed to Christianity before he founded Islam (before he heard the instructions of Allah)?
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What branch therof? I for one think the Chalcedonian version we know as Catholocism or Orthodoxy is likely.

Odds are he adopts and preaches a militant(?), particularly iconoclastic version of Monophystism (akin to the modern Coptic and Armenian faiths) to the Arabs as he seeks to unites them. His successors of cource would go after Rome for both oppression of thier coreligionists and iconodule heresey.

HTG (who wonders what may have happened if he picked up Buddhism)
 
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