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Church of Mariaremete and the priests of my childhood

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Church of Mariaremete and the priests of my childhood

2020. január 30. - 16:09

Let’s shorten it. The difference between us and Christians are:

  • they consider Jesus son of God while we consider him man and prophet
  • they believe in the death of Jesus on the Cross and his resurrection and we do not
  • they believe in Jesus as redeemer from our sins and we believe that everyone is responsible for their own intentions and deeds, so there is no external redemption
  • they believe in the Trinity, we consider it as Shirk, associating partners to God
  • they consider today's Bibles to be the word of God and we do not
  • We also believe in the Bible, not what is available today, but the one what used to be. However, it does not exist actually.

What is separating us from Christianity and Judaism? Simply they closed their stories in times of their own prophets and they don’t recognize Mohammed (peace be upon him) who came later. Yet we believe that the original Scriptures mention the advent of Mohammed (Ahmed). At the same time, we consider Jesus to be the messiah who will come on the day of doom.

And, so what? Let me make it clear: why do we have to make such a big deal about these differences? Why should our life be wasted for these subjects when our being takes place in a completely different space?

Now, come back to realities. I was raised by priests. On Sundays I went to the Mariaremete Church where sometimes I was ministering. During summer holidays Father Miklós took us to camp. Those were legendarily good summers. Father Alajos Werner often appeared in the huge park of the temple but he could not participate publicly in the church services due to the political charges against him. He was a church composer, and the Werner Mise is a well-known composition even today. This musical genius slept sometimes on the benches of the temple park, maybe that's how he got used to be on the berth of the prison. These priests provided me and my companions a wonderful childhood. Why would I turn against them? Issues concerning Jesus, the theological principles listed above did not arise when I was child. One thing was decisive for them: they trained us on values that have accompanied us throughout our lives. The hell didn't care about Jesus or anything else. But we knew what sin and virtue were. We knew how to behave with old people and we knew how to respect knowledge. The life patterns of these priests, their endless suffering what they tolerated soundlessly, gave us values. That's how they opened us the world!

I have been dealing with this Jesus-Mohammed case only since I have been a Muslim. I understand this issue as a Muslim and argue for Islam, but I would never turn against those who have raised me up and laid down the foundations of my conscience and spiritual spaces.

And let me go further. There are many positive examples of atheists, Jews of the same age. I don’t enter to details now. I just want to get to the point that in many cases our judgment is distorted by the doctrines that are brought to us after a certain level of theological knowledge. Who the shit is interested in Jesus and Mohammed if their names and principles come to light only when we need to be divided? If their name serves only disunity, I will be the first to reject them. But they didn't want that. Just in contrary. They came to give an example like the priests of my childhood in the garden of the church in Máriaremete. I wish I could see the same patterns in sheikhs, imams, or even in today's priests.