Which is you prefer Islam or Roman Catholic?

I am a Catholic but I am not against any religion because I believe that faith in GOD is more important than whatever religion you have. In today's world, what is more important is you know that you were created by a Divine Creator and should know what is right and wrong.

People should respect people regardless of what he believes in so that we can have world peace, love and harmony.

I am a roman catholic but that doesn't limit my views on other religion. Ever since when I was little, I was exposed to different religion, Christian, INC or even Islam. With many "prophets" now, it is not surprising that we have many religions but one thing is for sure, no matter what religion we are in, we believe in one true God. We just have different name for our God like Allah or Yahweh.
I have many Muslim friends and I sympathize with them when they are being associated as bad people but we really cannot blame other people for believing in such. Not that I am biased but many anti-government people are Muslims even those who are pirates or in drugs that's why they are being branded as bad people because many of their kind are doing bad things. But we should not generalize all Muslims because even as Catholic, many are also doing bad things.
It is not really religion that dictates a person. We are who we are and religion has nothing to do with it so let us all stop calling Muslims terrorists because they are not ALL terrorists.

Hi Char,

I'm a Muslim from southern region of India, true Muslims are tolerant to other belief systems. If you are really a truth seeker, and if you think there must be some aim for the short life in earth other than having more money and just enjoying and leading a luxury life; Then you have to study both religions from the actual sources of Information. However if you just try to study Islam by searching it, you may get many false information about Islam.

Now let me clear my part. Islam is an Arabic word which means Peace/Submission to God. Or Peace in submission to God. Those who believe in Islam i.e. those who really live in peace by submitting to God are called Muslims.

Allah is the name of God, which God says about himself, apart from that he got many other names. The English word 'God' has been misunderstood and can be used in many ways as Gods, Godess, God father, etc. but the Word Allah can't be used any of such forms, that is why Muslims prefer using the name "Allah" instead of God. How ever it is not wrong to use the word God in the sense of "The One God"

About 'Jesus': Muslims must believe in Jesus son of Mary. Because Muslims believe in all prophets/messengers assigned by God. We don't believe Jesus as a God, because we believe in one and one only God. We may call God as "Allah". Jesus was a man born to another human Mary. God is so superior and glorified than his creation human, and he is free from dependents or partners or incarnations.

I don't know what you really mean by M*KS, I assume its Mushrik? Mushrik means one who do shirk, and shirk means one who make/or believe partners or partnership for God.
And another related word is 'Kafir'. That means one who denies, In Islamic context one who denies the truth of the submission to God(Islam). It is not an offensive word actually. Sometime this word is translated as Infidel(which were first used by Jews:) )

Regarding medias: Do you know the famous medias are not with Muslims or Muslim majority nations. Muslims are either minority in those regions and they used to look at Muslims suspicious as it is growing in their countries in contrast to their belief. As it is different from their famous belief and it is growing so faster, and it sometimes denies the concept of their beliefs.. so they tend to announce about any small incident(mainly bad points alone) about Islamic labeled things. And many other medias in the world just mimic those big named medias.

Actually, Islam is a peaceful way of life, the complete way of life, by thanking accepting the God who created us and giving means and facilities to us. And then lead life in Good way as God's direction to achieve the never ending paradise, which is the salvation in Islam.

The ultimate proof and Miracle of Islam is the Holy Quran, the last testament. If you really read it with a neutral mind of understanding truth from cover to cover, with meanings/explanations rather than looking for some unplugged piece of verses you can find it is really from God. You will never find a book (Its more than a book:) ) Quran is 100% God's own words. Quran is the main proof that to show Islam is the truth.

I prefer to show the truth Islam by showing its beauty, rather than putting down others beliefs, however depending on the case I may sometime specify about the Bible contents. We don't believe the current day Christian/Jewish bible is the word of God or the revelation of God given to Moses/Jesus.

If you are really a truth seeker, you will find the truth yourself out of knowledge.

May Almighty Allah guide us to the right path.

regards,
a Muslim brother from India.

I am Catholic even though i respect other religions. It is a shame that all of them get some bad people that corrupt the original meaning of the religion. For example, in Islam it isn´t said that people should be terrorits, and most of the islamists don´t afre, of course. The problem is: there are a few that decided to blow things like the twin tower in name of the religion, so it starts to get defamed. The same is going on with the Catholic Church: there are some "priests" that decided to do less proper things with children. OF cours thats not what the Catholic Church teaches: What it teaches is the love, the peace, and a living in community, praising to Father.

i thing that is the problem, there are always "rotten apples" in any society, that damages the others and defames it.

hello,firstly like to appreciate your guts to ask question related to religion as many feel its a risk to go in that field of interest.Ya i too think that media is giving a bad impression on islam and muslims as whenever anything happens fingers are on islam but the fact comes out to be different in many cases.I personally think that all religion have the basic as one(love,brotherhood,peace,avoid sin) but its the people who are following in a different manner and giving it a bad name.

as a human. Gods creation. I think their is no such a religion that make us save from hell. For me as a person who believe in God. I dont preffer wich of those religion, as long as wqe, I believe that theirs ios God who created us and worship him as long as i live.

god is one it may be allah may be jesus or any other so we are not preferring which one is better.all religions are equal.

hello char...i choose none.
for a simple reason that i do not belong to any of them but i am a Christian though...
but even if i don't prefer any of them, it doesn't mean that i don't respect them. i respect all religions, their beliefs and everything...
maybe it just really wrong that some generalized the Muslim or Islam when one of its member makes a crime...religion is an institution and did not compose of only one person, and so if one person from this institution made a mistake, it doesn't mean that the institution have made a mistake...
all religions have beautiful teachings to make a person better but how a person practice his/her religion differs from one person to another...
we must learn how to respect each other no matter where religion we came from for all of us are human and created by God...

Well i was born Roman Catholic and until now i stick to my religion. But during my teenage days i also attended other religion to know the difference of catholic to other religion. I am not against in any religion for me the most important is your faith, and how you do things right in the eyes of God. Whatever religion you are right now it doesnt matter as long as you do things right, hope i make sense here

I am a Christian who prefers to practice her faith in the Catholic Religion. While I respect all religions that have faith in the one true God, there is a one important factor that is different from the Muslims and Catholics (or Christians, I might add). Catholics, e.g. Christians, believe that Jesus is not only the son of Mary, but also the son of God. We believe that God and Jesus are ONE. God came to us in human flesh in the way of Jesus Christ. There is also another person of whom we call the Holy Spirit that is a very important factor in the Catholic/Christian Faith. The holy spirit is what Jesus left for us on earth when he was crucified. It is his spirit that he gave us, so we may be graced with his presence on a daily basis, and have a full relationship with God, thru The Holy Spirit, and thru his son Jesus. Because Jesus was fully human, as well as divine, we know that Jesus can relate to our daily struggles and will be there always for us. These 3 factors make up what Catholics/Christians call "the blessed trinity" All of these - God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit - are ONE AND THE SAME PERSON.

I do not judge one Muslim from another, or one Catholic from another, or one Christian from another. Unfortunately, in every religion, there are those who interpret their religion in the wrong way, and are misguided by God's teachings, therefore cause descension among God's people.

Because the Muslims do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus and God are one, it is possible that Muslims are only familiar with the Old Testament (what Catholics call the time before Jesus was born); It is in the old Testament that demonstrates much fighting, and wars going on between religions. It is only when Jesus was born to all people, that he taught that fighting, revenge, and wars was all wrong. We are taught thru him that we should "turn the other cheek", and not fight back, but instead we should love one another in this world. Jesus taught a whole different way of life. Therefore those who only believe in God, and not Jesus as being God himself, maybe do not understand this.

I, too, have had a hard time understanding why there is so much fighting in this world, in the name of religion. But, I also, know, that in every religion, there is someone who mis-interprets God's teaching or are very mislead by their superiors; that is sad because it only causes wars between everyone.