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Re: Why do people hate islam?
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Spendulus
on 14/09/2015, 18:47:14 UTC
James 1:27:
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Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Smiley
That is  religion representing our best impulses.  Smiley
Acts of kindness and love may be less mentioned these days, but they are as more a part of religions than hate. Christianity and Islam have long traditions of helping the less fortunate. Christians who can do so are supposed to give 10% of their money via the system called "Tithing".  In Islam "Zakat" is one of the 5 pillars of Islam that all Muslims must uphold. Like Tithing, Zakat is a system to redistribute wealth via religious giving. 


In the USA, tithing 10% is taught by the fundamentalist, and not the mainstream denominations.  Some may disagree, but I have seen tithing as having been negatively viewed, I believe as the result of it's promotion by the TV evangelist "Mega Churches," with their numerous scandals.