The following paragraph, caught my eyes, is extracted from the post titled ‘The Hypocrisy In Men’ posted in Malaysia Today on 25 December 2008.
..........And are we so different? Did not Muhammad learn from the Christians and much of Islam ‘adopted’ from Christianity? Does not the Ka’bah also appear in the same name and form in the land of the Zoroastrians in the far reaches of Persia? Did not Jesus disappear from the ages of 12 to 30 when he sought tuition from Buddhists, as many now believe? Did not John the Baptist practice what was practiced by the Hindus in India of his time? But what can we really believe? Do we really know what was fact and fiction thousands of years ago? What we do know is what we have been told to believe.............
The full length post can be accessed here http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/16320/84/
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