Liberal, on 27 March 2011 - 05:48 AM, said:
Abraham or Ibrahim alayhis salam was monotheist, while Christians are Polytheists/Mushrikeen. How can Christianity be 'Abrahamic'? Even the Pagans were 'Abrahamic' or 'Adamian' if you trace them back in the past. The point is what they are now, they are Pagans, Mushrikeen, Kuffar.
*bangs head on the desk*
Oh my God. Please attend a church sermon or at LEAST take a theology class or an anthropology class. Christians are Abrahamic. Every other person in the entire world seems to understand this except you.
"The" Pagans does not exist. You cannot say that Paganism was Abrahamic once upon a time. There is no such thing as ONE Paganism that was any one thing. Wicca, Astaru, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Shamanism...all of those things are pagan and come from all four corners of the globe. Perhaps the Arab pagans had Abrahamic ties, but Celtic pagans certainly did not until the indigenous pagan religion was combined with Christianity in order to convert pagans into Christians. However, while many Christian holidays and Christian traditions are taken from the pagan faiths that they had conquered at the time and blended into, Christianity is NOT a pagan religion. Christianity is Abrahamic which is what separates it from the "pagan" category.