Christians have a reputation among Muslims as unbelievers with ludicrous beliefs and a decadent lifestyle… and it's not their fault. Just look at how the proliferation of identities and sin within Christianity is perfectly aligned with the message of the Gospels and the catechesis that has perverted its essence.
If examples of the Virgin Mary are difficult to find in our societies, it is precisely because Mary's virginity absolves us of the need to be virgin ourselves. No woman is expected to measure up to the Mother of God. Vows of chastity that a woman may take are, at best, wishes, but no one expects them to be respected except perhaps possessive, drug-addicted fathers.
The Christian religion invites sin, if only so that Jesus did not die in vain. Every sin committed by a Christian increases the value of Jesus' death: sinning is a spiritual gain. Christianity and the so-called Western way of life go hand in hand, and one follows the word of God only when one has adapted to society… OnlyFans is very Christian! “This is my body, which is for you [my followers].”

So why is Christianity still the object of criticism, even hostility, from those who nevertheless follow its structure? Most of the time, it's because they are mistaken between two forms of Christianity…

Islam, for its part, has a reputation for being a dangerous, repressive, even totalitarian religion in Christian countries… and it's their own fault. Just look at how passages from the Quran are interpreted to justify the worst atrocities against their own group.
If Jesus invites sin, Islam on the other hand is a religion of alternative lifestyles, punk and individualism: to become a Taliban, one must do violence to oneself and spit on one's Quran every time one prioritizes tradition over the text being said to be the literal direct word of God.
There's this belief that the first Muslims achieved Islamic perfection and that we should aspire to return to the customs of the first generation of Muslims. So, if the goal becomes imitating the first Muslims, we miss the mark, which is, I tell you, to follow the word of God. Nothing says there's only one way to be a perfect Muslim, and...

So why does Islam raise so much fear, as if Islamization is something to be feared by a democracy? It's because there is more than one Islam…

You see… there has been a perversion of these two religions.

The meanings of religion

Traditional Christianity, which I will call ordinary, has completely strayed from the original meaning of this religion. Most, if not all, religions have their two sides: the ordinary and the original. The original meaning is both the original meaning and the one that stems from originality, because the original meaning is lost (Jesus is no longer here to tell us what he meant by this or that), so to rediscover the original, we must be creative and recreate it.

The common understanding is the one ordained by religious authorities, who, to my knowledge, are all Pharisees. The Pharisees are the authorities who dictate what to think, what is permitted, and what is forbidden. Their focus is on enslavement to laws (which are supposed to serve our interests), and their actions result in a reduction of freedoms. The Pharisees defend the common understanding of a religion against attempts by others to find an original interpretation. 

So there are at least two ways to read each religion. We can take refuge in the words of rabbis, priests, Islamic scholars… in short, specialists who, through constant invalidation in theological debates, where sometimes one is wrong, sometimes the other, sometimes me, sometimes you… we end up believing that what creates unity in our religion is invalidation.

Ordinary Christianity: torture your neighbor as you torture yourself

Christianity is a special case: the Pharisees are the enemies of Jesus, or at least the antagonists of the narrative. The priest who reads this must understand, even if only subconsciously, that the text invalidates him: he is the antagonist of the one whose words he is spreading. After all, Jesus was against religious authorities who suppressed freedom or appropriated the meaning of the texts for themselves.

It was then that the priests committed the crime of the century by inventing antisemitism to justify, to themselves and to the believers, doing the same thing as the Pharisees. The Pharisee became a Jew: in their eyes, it was no longer the oppressors of liberty or the monopoly on the interpretation of the Sacred Texts that Jesus was confronting.

So in Christianity, on the one hand, we have Jesus, who tells us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and on the other hand, priests, who are God's representatives on Earth, who tell us that Jesus is God by invalidating us, or at least, teaching us to do so. They show us the model of Jesus and tell us that he is God, that he suffered greatly for us (even though we asked nothing of him) because we were born sinners due to Adam's sin…

Christianity […] crushed and broke man completely and buried him in a deep mire: in the feeling of total objection, it then suddenly made the brilliance of divine mercy shine forth, so that man was surprised, stunned by grace, cried out in rapture and, for a moment, believed he carried the whole of heaven within himself.

Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human. §114

It's like being saved by the very person who drowned you, but instead of being a crime, it's called a baptism: this is love for one's neighbor in the ordinary Christian sense. Whether we like it or not, we too often end up doing the same thing: whether it's a parent who didn't know how to love comforting the wounds they inflicted on their child, or our leaders pushing for cuts to public services only to reinvest, initially casting themselves as responsible politicians, then later as generous ones… We always pull the same trick of dragging others down just to gain the glory of being the ones who wash their feet…

Jesus never acted that way.

He didn't say he came to absolve original sin. He gave freely, asking nothing more than that we not shout it from the rooftops… The Jesus they presented to us as God incarnate led us to judge his humanity as beyond our grasp. Yet Jesus spoke beautiful words of love such as… You are the salt of the EarthBut if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. (Matthew 5:13) And what happens when we stop loving ourselves? We let ourselves be trampled on… But still, the salt of the earth means that we are what gives this world its flavor. What priest has ever spoken so poetically to me?

"If he could act this way, it's because he is God incarnate," the priests led us to believe… In short, the Christian religion then lost its appeal and found itself thrown out to be trampled underfoot, but not before its priests and popes had taught us poorly how to love one another, and especially ourselves. No priest has ever placed me on a pedestal as Jesus did, telling me that I am the salt of the earth.

It also follows that the Passion of Christ has been self-glorified as a spectacle of atrocities, venerated only because it stirs passions in one another. This is believed to be the normal mode of existence on earth. But where is the logic in that?

If Jesus is God and I don't have the right to act like him, why must I suffer too?

Jesus' true enemy is those who made him suffer: Rome as much as the Pharisees who drove him to suffering, the Judases who betrayed him to the authorities, and the people who demanded innocent blood. Everywhere I look, I see that Jesus' enemies are in power and that the world belongs to them.

Ordinary Islam: "Be submitted to Allah"

This phenomenon is also found in Islam. Some even go so far as to say that Islam means "submission," yet they seek to spread it. The consonantal root SLM is unequivocally the word "peace." Salam, el-salam, Islam. This is the peace of God, not submission to God. It is the spiritual leaders of the religion who have effected this change from "peace" to "submission" in order to give themselves a certain authority.

When you have the prestige of being able to interpret Sacred Texts and be believed, it becomes tempting to want to monopolize the power of God's Word. But in doing so, submission is not to God, but to the one who tells you what God means, even though he only has an idea of ​​it, and whose interpretation will in any case reflect his values. No matter how closely we adhere to the text, our values ​​will still come between our reading and the text. 

However, the Quran advises caution regarding interpretations and provides a good guide on the method to use for its interpretation. It should be read as one reads it when Allah is most remembered:

It is He who has sent down to you the Book. In it are verses that are entirely clear, they are the foundation of the Book, and others that are open to interpretation. So those in whose hearts is deviation follow that which is open to interpretation, seeking discord and trying to find a way to interpret it, while none knows its interpretation except Allah.
And these experts of science tell us: "We believe this: it is from our Lord!" (another possible reading: "We have defeated the Prophets!") But they have not remembered their Allah since they were babies.

Surah 3.7

In other words, we have to read the Quran as if we were babies again. And when it says to kill, even though it's supposed to be a religion of peace, it creates cognitive dissonance. That said, you have to see how a baby kills: it points and goes *pow!*. It's one possible interpretation, but since we shouldn't seek discord through our interpretations, it seems to me to be the best one.

In Algeria, following the war, those who had submitted their bids believed that God wanted them to rig the elections so that the Islamic Front could come to power with its agenda of homogenizing religious practices, even employing murderers, while original Islam actually teaches the exact opposite. The Quran asks that people be encouraged to follow their customs, to do things differently from others, and if one goes so far as to kill, it is those who prevent doing otherwise who are fit to perish.

Original Christianity: Love yourself

Debates have raged for centuries about the dual human and divine status of Jesus. A great deal of time has been spent defining the boundaries or describing the nature of what they call "the Christ." I myself was born into the Maronite denomination, and I confess to adopting the attitude that separated this denomination from the rest of the Church: he is both human and divine, and we don't really care how or in what ways. I believe this is a sound attitude, because by being so 100% human, he takes on the aspect of an example to follow: the most divine way to be human is to imitate Jesus. We must recognize ourselves in him more than we recognize God in him.

In what ways then is Jesus divine? It is because he is exactly like God, simply because He loves himself as God loves himself And God is love… love selfGod is self-love. If he created us in his image, it's because he felt there was a lack of him in the Universe. And if he loves us, it's because he recognizes himself in us. That's also how Jesus was able to spread so much love around him. It is self-love that allows us to love others. We can only give the love we have received. Our parents didn't give us love like divine love. Neither did the priests… they were too busy spreading shame about being homosexual to talk about the divine love within each of us… Unfortunately, that's something we have to find for ourselves.

Although he told us to love others as we love ourselves, Jesus never told us how to love ourselves, or at least, that's not in the Gospels that have been preserved. We must observe how Jesus acts and remember that we are invited and encouraged to do as he did. We must, in a way, choose to begin loving ourselves.

I have summarized the maxims that can be applied if one seeks to find self-love:

• Never seek validation from someone else and don't act to make yourself liked.
• Do not use others as subordinates or tools.
• You don't need others to look good, and you don't need to look good.
• Don't let yourself be held back from acting because of what others are watching or who you might antagonize. The only thing that should stop you is the rights of others.
• Surround yourself with those who love you and value your word above all else. If someone tries to evaluate you and questions you as if they're wondering what your word is worth, you have every right to politely refuse to answer… because…
• …Know that you owe nothing to anyone.^[1]
• Compliment yourself, out loud, in public, and treat yourself like a person of high importance and worth, giving yourself titles of nobility if you want.^[2]
• You can let others believe that you are the Son of God. You can call God "Father" (it's allowed, because God doesn't have a name that's essential to him; he knows when you're addressing him) and even say "Oh my God," because that's perfectly valid; he's your personal God.^[3].
• Act in your own name; that is, give yourself the authority to act and do not give credit to anyone other than yourself for your exploits. (Jesus cast out demons in his own name and not in God's.)
• And when you help others, don't ask them to shout it from the rooftops, or even ask them to keep it to themselves.
• Don't be ashamed to teach what you know to those who are willing to learn from you (even letting them follow you like lost sheep – with social media it's even easier). Don't hide your cards. 
• Don't avoid solitude; go of your own accord, alone, into a symbolic desert when you need time for yourself. (Even though Jesus was followed by crowds, it never became a need for him.)
• Don't avoid confrontation: whether with religious authorities or law enforcement, as well as with your friends, your parents or complete strangers, and when it happens you don't need to end the confrontation with a reconciliation.
• You can even disown your parents in public and choose who you call your family according to your own criteria.
• Speak to people of higher status as if they were on your level. Don't be intimidated by someone else's status. (Jesus spoke to Satan as he would speak to anyone else, to the Pharisees and Pontius Pilate.)
• Give yourself the freedom to read and interpret the texts in your own way. You have the right to ponder the principles underlying all law, divine or human, without anyone having given you prior permission or validated your statements. (Jesus did this with the divine law of Moses. These laws had been in effect for 13 centuries before his birth: and as far as we know, he was the first to allow himself to contemplate the so-called divine laws from a divine perspective, even though it is permitted.)
• Speak with your emotions, because you shouldn't be afraid to show them. You can even speak angrily when you're indignant, and you can even act on your anger as long as you don't go so far as to be violent towards someone.^[4]
• Don't seek a good reputation, because that means putting your reputation above yourself.
• Don't seek worldly success; let it find you. Do what you love and what's important to you. Success may or may not come, but at least you'll have done what you love and what you find important. Whether people like you, hate you, or both, is their own business.
• Do not fear death more than you fear a life not worth living.
• Call those who invalidate you "Satan," even when it's one of your best friends.^[5]

The feeling of self-love will arise if we begin to give ourselves love. But we must choose to love ourselves, in other words, to become children again. It's the only choice we can truly make.

But tell me, my brothers, what can a child still do that even the lion himself could not? Why must the predatory lion become a child? Because the child is innocence and forgetfulness, a new beginning, play, a self-moving wheel, the first impulse, a sacred affirmation. Truly, my brothers, to play the game of the creators, one must be a sacred affirmation; it is its own will that the spirit now desires; having lost the world, it conquers its own.

Nietzsche. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Three Metamorphoses

So, stop playing the camel, sitting and waiting to be overloaded with cargo and about to fall. Break free from the cycle, like a lion, and become children again. Questions about willpower, saying "where there's a will, there's a way" or "where there's a will, there's a way," are just a way of invalidating ourselves by blaming every failure on our willpower. But what does that even mean? The more we pump ourselves up, motivating ourselves and putting all our willpower into it, the more it all falls apart when things don't go exactly as we imagined, precisely to pump ourselves up.

Original sin is nonsense! You were born perfect, in the image of God. The law we received from God states that children only suffer the sins of their parents for a few generations: if that were true, we would have stopped suffering long ago. "The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those [who are like little children]." Little children haven't yet internalized the wounds inflicted by their parents, who then re-inflict them under the guise of education. We collectively prevent ourselves from being in the Garden because we are too preoccupied with invalidating ourselves, calling it love. We mustn't accept the world as it is, because that's what causes suffering to the very core of the Universe that we truly are.

Original Islam: "Peace sows Allah"

The text of the Quran is much closer to our Western individualistic values ​​than we think. Indeed, God does not ask us to change the people's habits to demonstrate greater piety. Verse 39 of the 39th^e The Surah tells us, "Say: 'O my people! Act according to your ways,'" soft, I act differently"It's not about changing others. It's about finding and following one's own path on the path of Allah."

And if you are prevented from following your path, from I To do otherwise is where the Quran prescribes the use of violence:

"Fight in the cause of Allah those who..." fightDo not transgress (the path): Allah detests transgressors. Kill them (the transgressors) wherever you find them (i.e., on the path), expel them from wherever they expelled you. Sedition is worse than fighting.

Surah 2 Verses 190-191

That being said, for someone to transgress the path of Allah, we must be living in a society that stifles freedom or is totalitarian. Indeed, if someone prevents me from following my path on the path of Allah, it is necessarily a totalitarian political regime or a criminal individual. It is not transgressing the path of Allah to not follow His law, such as a woman not wearing the hijab: she does not prevent others from following the path, therefore the path has not been transgressed. They do not block the path because They're not even on it.

It's when someone goes so far as to forbid you, to prevent you from following divine law, that the path is transgressed. In this case, between being forced by someone else to go to hell and killing them, killing them is the rational choice. It's a one-on-one pact with God where you only have to follow His law to go to paradise, and it tells you not to do as others do. So anyone who wants to force others to do as they do hasn't understood the message.

When a political regime oppresses your fundamental freedoms, it is the political regime that must be destroyed. For an individual to prevent you from practicing your religion, they must use physical force against you in a way that would legally constitute self-defense. Consider the Uyghurs, for example, whom the Chinese state is forcing into a concentration camp. Armed resistance would be justified insofar as the aim is to eliminate their difference. The same resistance would have been justified in Algeria when the Islamic Front used criminal methods to seize power, aiming to prevent others from doing things differently and thus from following the path of Allah.

“While I was sleeping, I dreamt of people wearing shirts that reached their chests, and others even shorter.” […] “And how did you interpret this, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied:
"It's Religion"

Sahih Bukhari Vol.1, Book 2, No. 22

Someone who presents an additional obstacle on your path, such as a beautiful woman or a handsome man who displays their charms in public when the Quran commands chastity, is not transgressing the path. According to this Hadith, they might even be considered part of the religion. It is not when the path becomes difficult because others they do as they please, and that's when there's a transgression.

The logic of the Quran also applies within Islam. Thus, the shari'a (literal translation: the path) must allow the individual to do otherwise the shari'aThe path, itself transgresses the path. No doubt that a people under the law of the shari'a must be diverse and individualistic. It's a religion of alternative culture which requires being, in a way, a punk. A punk who will go to the front lines to defend the possibility of turning away from social norms when prevented from doing so. This is why the world, it needs to be changed When it's not conducive. If it prevents you from being who you are and doing things differently, even if it's unconventional, then this world is preventing you from following. your own path on the path of Allah: and your path cannot be the same for others.

Religious unease and well-being

I think it's clear from the examples of Islam and Christianity that we can see where the mentality of self-help booksellers comes from. It's as if they've accepted and internalized the mainstream religious view that there's only one path to follow. And it just so happens that they can show it to us in their book. They're not allowed to be indignant, because that would be God's prerogative (Jesus would have the right to overturn a table, not you… yeah, right!).

Yet, these two common views share the same premise: that they are reinforced by Pharisees. The person who sells books on success earns passive income from the profits of their books; it is through passive income that they achieve their success. They will try to make you believe that you are the problem, but no, it is the Pharisees like them.

Religions are meant to be a source of strength for the individual believer, not a series of prohibitions that hinder them. Above all, they shouldn't serve, like self-help books, to trap the believer in a downward spiral of self-loathing. But since the magic trick is more powerful in a religion than in a self-help book, it can be turned even harder on one's head.

And this is the pattern of religious evolution we have historically observed: they gain considerable ground in their early stages because it strengthens the believer, and this way of thinking is advantageous to them (the original). Then, Pharisees emerge who, through intellectual debates, ultimately turn the meaning of religion on its head, creating a commonplace interpretation. And in the case of Islam and Christianity, we have had them for quite some time now, as they have dictated the culture, even down to the methods of educating children.

However, in the Bible and the Quran, I have not read that there should be a passage from childhood to adulthood… that is yet another religion.

[1] Jesus doesn't even feel obligated to answer the questions he's asked, even during a trial where the death penalty is possible. He gives the answer he wants to give, if he wants to give one (sometimes he simply refuses to answer), but he doesn't answer the questions put to him like a schoolchild during an exam.

[2] Beyoncé talks about Beyoncé the way Jesus talks about Jesus; that's the level of self-love we need to give ourselves. Jesus was called Prince, or the Bridegroom at his wedding, in short, not like just anyone.

[3] God is personal in that he is not understood in the same way by every person: to say that God is not personal is to reduce him to his name. For only the Name of God is common to all: but the word "God" resonates differently from one person to another, therefore it is personal.

[4] Speaking angrily isn't necessarily violent, unlike shouting. People feel violated when emotions are made to them, but it's not your responsibility to ensure their emotional comfort. If they don't pay attention to what you're saying and only focus on the outward signs of anger, they're the ones missing the point. You should always listen to what someone is saying, not how they're saying it. feel what she says.

[5] When Jesus reveals that he will be put to death, Peter rejects him, and Jesus tells him, "Get behind me, Satan!" And reject others only to the extent that they infringe upon your freedoms: it was because the Pharisees sought to prevent him from acting that they rejected their teachings. But, for example, Jesus did not reject the pagans; he even returned political and fiscal power to Caesar and his pagan empire.