[Skybird]

At Jesus' life times, there was no new testament and no "christian church". There was only Judaism and the Thora. and the old testament indeed compares more to the old Judaic entity Jahwe, and presents the same image of a revengening, tyrannic psychotic God who tortures his followers for fun to test them, and who commands and set up demands and threatens most unforgiving penalties and extinction if he is not obeyed. Jesus introduces a very different concept of "God", which transcended the level of literalism and the conept of the old "volcano-god", and put man in responsibility for his fate while also showing that he is already embedded in a greater context. In principle Jesus was a reformer of Judaism, and Christinity if a reformed version of Judaism, expressed in the NT. The OT compares to the old Thora. but there is no new thopra that could be compared to the NT.

A comparable historic developement in Islam never took place, there is no reformed Islam and not reformed version of the Quran. Islam thus remained on the level of orthodox Judaism and fundamentalists who focus more on the OT than the NT. It is my strong conviction that people who try to take the NT as literal as the OT (fanatic Jesus-lovers taking the NT literally), simply have so far missed the most important part of the message of Jesus, and that is: don't do like this anymore, for God is not like this.

In the end, Muhammeddans, orthodox Jews and fundamental Christians all share the same basic mindset - and thus they all compare in their level of intolerance, anti-intellectualism and readiness to bring barbary and backwardedness upon mankind. Do not burn the Quran only but the Thora and the OT as well. It's all the same poison murdering thought and claiming superiority where there is just an intellectual hole, and a void where there should be reason. It's all three just offsprings of one and the same mind, and if given the opportunity, the one will behave as barbabric and hateful as the other.