Re: Great love for jesus led me to Islam
There was very little religious involvelment in WWII so, It was all about power and territory… We can safely leave it out while talking about Christianity or Islam…
Back to topic, few interesting extract regarding your comment ‘Roman catholics more standardized and centralized’ religion
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**Christianity faces day of judgment **
Martin Wainwright
Friday September 7, 2001
The Guardian
'My parish church is so cold, damp and little attended that I always wear my thickest coat - why, there are even fungi growing in great numbers round the communion table."
That was not Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor but a friend of Tennyson’s in 1843, when Christianity’s official hold over Britain looked every bit as shaky as the Catholic leader fears it is today.
But in spite of history’s catalogue of empty churches and hopeless priests, the cardinal’s warning that Christianity “has now almost been vanquished” is not being brushed aside as just the umpteenth re-run of a 2,000-year-old story.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, told a conference of priests on Wednesday that Christianity was being pushed to the margins of society by New Age beliefs, the environmental movement, the occult and the free-market economy. The influence of Chris tianity on modern culture and intellectual life had been hugely diminished, he said.
Even believers who back the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey’s view yesterday that it is “an exhilarating time to be a Christian” share the cardinal’s alarm at the relentless fall in church membership - often in contrast to other faiths’ success in winning new recruits.
“In the case of Islam - Britain’s fastest-growing religion - I think a sense of tradition and certainty is an important part of the appeal,” said Sayed Ameli, head of the interfaith department of the British Islamic Centre. “**When I talk to converts from Christianity, they talk of their unease that so many changes are happening in the churches. They say: ‘There is too much modernisation in the Catholic church’ or, if they were Protestants, ‘we could no longer feel a proper sense of religion’.” **
A Policy Studies Institute survey of religion’s importance to different faith communities offers similar evidence, recording a 75% “very important” rating among British Muslims compared to 11% of white Anglicans. Tariq Moddod, of Bristol University, who conducted the research, said: “The exception in Christianity was among churches like the Seventh Day Adventists or the New Protestant churches which are mostly Afro-Caribbean or South Indian. The New Protestants had a ‘very important’ rating of 71%.”
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Dr Ameli, who is preparing for interfaith sessions on the family and the Bible with mixed groups of Muslims and evangelical Christians, agreed. He said: **"One different but encouraging message from converts to Islam is that they didn’t just want a ‘Sunday religion’. They wanted something that would involve them and purify them all the time. **
**“I do not say this in a hostile way to Christianity, because an ‘everyday religion’ is one of the many things which Islam, Christianity and Judaism can all share. We have much to discover about that and about the effect on all of us of secularisation and the idea that religion is just a ‘childish thing’.” **
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One important thing disappearing is, certain degree of control/authority people want their religion to have on their lives. Which has almost disapeared in most of the secular societies. But judaism and Islam still have (to some extent ) this authority over its followers.