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Reminds me of what little I know of the split between the Salafi Muslims and the Sunni. IIRC, despite Salafi Islam developing from the teachings of Sunni cleric
by sterlind 7y ago
Reminds me of what little I know of the split between the Salafi Muslims and the Sunni. IIRC, despite Salafi Islam developing from the teachings of Sunni cleric al-Wahhab, they view other Muslims as apostates, practicing shirk and therefore unforgivable sinners.
On the Christian side, some Seventh-Day Adventists apparently see the Catholic church as the "Whore of Babylon" and the pope as the antichrist. [0]
Maybe the closeness between two groups just means they can be really detailed and exact about why they hate each other.
0. https://www.catholic.com/tract/seventh-day-adventism https://www.catholic.com/tract/seventh-day-adventism
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- jacobolus 7y ago> some Seventh-Day Adventists apparently see the Catholic church as the "Whore of Babylon" That’s probably not too far off. My impression is that the Hebrew Bible was written by nomadic shepherds who despised cosmopolitan city-dwellers who they thought had loose morals. And similarly for the authors of the New Testament, who despised the Roman Empire of the day (“Babylon” here is thought to be a stand-in for Rome). It is quite ironic that this became the holy teaching of the state religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later. (Disclaimer: I am not a religious person and am by no means an expert on the Bible.)