Well, it's rubbish but so far I've not been able to make a good case about why. Just saying a thing doesn't mean it's true. We say "Allah, G_d and God the Father are all one," but you actually have to provide some kind of evidence. The fact is, the evidence diproves the assertion.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Christ is a God that has an immutable nature that cannot be contradicted. It is His nature to be true to His nature. From that nature, flows all of the immutability of what we like to call "reality". Without that essential oneness, nothing real is really real, and you are back to the Cartesians and Nihilists and old "esse est percipi" as the whole of the law. You can't have the universe rest on a little bit of objectivity and a little bit of subjectivism, I'm afraid it has to be objectivity or nothin' or the whole thing collapses into the howling void of self-contradiction.
Today, just for the exercise, I was correcting some idiotic rubbish by some silly British teenager on someone else's blog.
To wit:
SBT says: "Morals are morals and religion has nothing to do with them. Just because you choose to follow a strict guide book it don’t mean I cant pick and choose to how I feel."
[Rolling my eyes...fighting the urge just to smack him...] HJMW responds:
"morals are morals"
This is a very interesting and important point. Morals are indeed morals and they can indeed be separated out from any one particular religious system. But the fact that morals are morals, right is right and that's that, actually points to Christianity being the true religion; the one, in otherwords that reflects the true order of the universe.
You might be interested to know that in philosophy there is this thing called the "Natural Law", that has nothing to do, itself, with any religion. It is upon this law that the Christian moral law is founded, not the other way around. (and no, the white smoke thing has as little to do with the doctrines of Christianity as the colour of the Queen's garter robes have to do with Constitutional democracy; do try to look things up once in a while. Stupidity is not attractive Ian, neither is willful ignorance. Do not annoy.).
The natural law theory, developed by the Greeks and later by Roman jurisprudes, and thereby finding its way into Roman law and later medieval law and theology, is that there is a universal idea of right and wrong, embedded in the nature of the universe, that can be known by anyone essentially instinctively. It is the moral law written on our souls that enables us to say, good is good and evil, evil. To shun evil and do the good and that we all know what that is.
Christianity does indeed seek to "take over the world" under this moral law. The main difference between Islam and Christianity is that Christianity seeks to convert hearts and minds and does not hesitate to use rational thought to do it. To Muslims, the good must be coerced, at the point of a sword if necessary. Islam cares nothing for your heart or your mind, and is interested only in conquest. Christianity seeks to convert the world. Islam to conquer.
Islam insists on its laws but only because it is the "will of Allah", and not because it is "right" in any universal sense, (they have no concept of universal moral norms). Whatever is willed by "Allah" is the good, whether it is a grave evil or not. Whatever Allah wills, whether it be the rape of six year old girs, or sawing off the heads of foreign journalists, is the good. They refuse to acknowledge the existence of any universal moral law, saying that if Allah wills the evil, that is the good.
This is the basis of the argument made by many faithful Christians that the notion Muslims and Christians (and Jews, let's not forget) worship the same deity is nonsense. The Muslim Allah is anti-rational and contradicts its own nature. Allah is able to make or break the moral laws at will. This is the essence of the criticism made by Pope Benedict at Regensberg, that God, the moral law and the good are all of a piece and that it is simply anti-rational to say that God could possibly change the moral law or will what is clearly an objective evil. God cannot, by His will, contradict His own nature and say that an evil thing is really a good.
In Christianity, the moral law is what it is because it is a reflection of the nature of God. It is good because He is good. It is eternal and universal because He is eternal and universal. The two cannot be separated.
The fact that you have said "morals are morals" proves that you think like a Christian, make the philosophical assumptions that have been taught, from the Greeks and Romans, by Christianity (formerly known as "Catholicism" until Luther, that good jihadist, came along to start making things up and exempting himself from things he didn't like about the truth). The concept, "Morals are morals" is a Christian concept.
And that is the essence of the problem we are having with the Islams. We make these moral and philosophical assumptions so naturally, and are taught so little about it in what we laughably still call our "schools" that we make another unconscious assumption that everyone in the world thinks like we do. This assumption is shared equally by secularists, leftists, liberals and by thinking religious people. We have been so immersed in the Christian way of thought for so long that we simply can't imagine any other way of thinking.
But there is another way, and the two are not just incompatible, they are like matter and anti-matter: the two cannot exist in the same place at the same time...or there will be an explosion.
Soon.
Allah cannot be the same God as God because it is capable of refuting and denying its own nature. It is, on the one hand, the author of the good, and on the other, the negator of the good. It is the source of truth and the denier of truth.
Of course, the whole religion is founded on the same kind of philosophical narcissism as the lefty/subjectivist thing. It is why they get on so well. The only reason that (most) of the secularist enemy has not (yet) taken up arms against the objectivists (us) is because they are, like everyone in the historically Christian West, starting unconcsiously with Western, Christian, objectivist, Natural-Law notions of what is the right way to fight a fight.
It provides a certain grim sort of amusement to those who have figured all this out, to imagine what is going to happen on the day the Islams turn on their good friends in the liberal subjectivist establishment who have helped them subdue and enslave the West.
"What, you want to kill us too?! but...but...
THAT'S NOT FAIR..."
Who you gonna complain to then eh?
(Of course, the satisfaction of watching them get their comuppance will have to be enjoyed from the perspective of heaven.)
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