Abrahamic Religions

Abrahamic Religions and New York City

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Zohran Mamdani appears to have won the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary, pending ranked-choice voting tabulation expected by July 1. Mamdani’s lead is considered substantial.

Right-wing news outlets and blogosphere are upset, with some claiming, “America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.” One blog commenter responded to me, stating:

Islam is incompatible with western civilization.

My original post had been:

New York City has been a disaster for decades. Ran by Jews and/or Christians during the whole time. Personally, I don’t believe a Muslim could run it any worse.

The Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—seem locked in an endless struggle over who “owns” God. Anthropomorphism aside, it’s likely that “God” doesn’t possess human traits, which is probably a good thing for humanity.

2025 New York City mayoral election

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Israel vs Iran

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Hamas is pinned down in Gaza. Hezbollah is struggling to recover from the pager attack in Lebanon. Bashar al-Assad has been ousted from Syria. The IAEA board has determined, for the first time in 20 years, that Iran is not complying with its nuclear obligations.

Iran has been stalling in nuclear talks with the United States while continuing to pursue a nuclear weapon. Israel, deeming time critical, decided to act against Iran following the IAEA’s finding that Iran was not complying with its nuclear obligations.

Operation “Rising Lion”

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Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1 meets ChatGPT

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It’s challenging for a Western mind to grasp Eastern philosophy, but I’m uncertain if the reverse is equally true. The Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1 profoundly transformed my life many years ago. The logo image above, referencing Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1, connects to ten related verses Here.

I have been testing Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Bing Chat (Copilot), Gemini, Perplexity, and Manus AIs for some time. I’m running questions, requests, and searches through each to identify which provides the best responses. Today, I ran Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1 through ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude, and I found ChatGPT’s response the most satisfying.

Here is ChatGPT’s response:

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Islam – Religion of Peace

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This was originally published on 7/4/2008 at an old blog. Original is HERE.

Had been updated over the years…

It was difficult to copy here – one reason was that I use Squoosh to reduce pic size, and not all the formatting came out the same.

Haven’t checked the links to see if they still work, but may try tomorrow. Some work – some don’t.

Many more humans have been brutally murdered in the name of Islam since 2008.

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Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban (July 29, 2010) :

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Christianity

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This is from 12/12/2007. Haven’t gone thru it yet, but have noticed that some links no longer work, and may do something similar to the Abrahamic Religions page editing.

Still, this is very long, and some of the links are so broken that they now direct to totally irrelevant sites that are not remotely connected to original link. Am just not going to spend a lot of time fixing such links…possibly.

(NOTE: see Abrahamic Religions post for more info…)

 

 

Christianity is one of the three religions that are categorized under the term Abrahamic Religion, with Judaism and Islam being the other two. Christianity is the largest religion (ranked by adherents worldwide), Islam is the second largest, and Judaism is the twelfth largest. All three of these religions claim Abraham as a part of their sacred history. All three of these religions claim that their religious scriptures were “given to them by God.” All three of these religions, with a few exceptions, fall under religions that teach or practice Exclusivism (“Exclusive Principle”), e.g. that only their religion leads to “God and salvation.” With their common connection to Abraham, one might wonder why these Abrahamic Religions can’t get along with each other.

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