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What makes anyone think that Christians, Muslims and Jews can unite behind any man, when they cannot live in peace under the one true God they all believe in? The search for peace through Abraham will lead only along the path we have already traveled--to disagreements, discord and strife. The sole solution is for people of the three faiths to live together as children of God. George J. Steele Amsterdam...
Perhaps the problem with the legacy of Abraham is that all three monotheistic faiths have yet to come to terms with the historical development of their own traditions. If we could see all sacred scriptures as a common record of the universal human search for meaning and not as the revealed word of God, we would recognize that for millenniums we have been reading meaning into these texts instead of getting understanding out of them. Rabbi Richard Hirsh Wyncote...
...misleading to think the current conflict in the Holy Land is a continuation of the mythic struggle between Abraham's sons. There is nothing holy about savage bloodshed that has destroyed generations of innocent lives for the sole purpose of maintaining political power and control of land and water. Makram Talih New Haven, Conn...
When Jews, Christians and Muslims shed their exclusive claims on Abraham and recognize that he is the patriarch of all three faiths, maybe these cousins can coexist in peace. But that requires courage and compassion. Are we up to it? Hasan Zillur Rahim San Jose, Calif...
...were to speak to Muslims, Christians and Jews today, would the message be any different from the one given to Abraham at the moment he was about to take his son's life? If God constrained Abraham from killing his son, aren't we, as children of Abraham, also forbidden to kill one another? William Dodd Brown Chicago...