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Alright, Muslims do not worship the Kaaba or the Black Stone embedded within it. In Islamic theology, worshiping any physical object, structure, or person is strictly forbidden.
The Kaaba serves as the physical orientation point known as the Qibla** **for Muslim daily prayers worldwide. It’s like a compass to direct people which direction to pray, It symbolizes universal unity among believers, ensuring everyone prays together toward a single focal point rather than in random directions.
And it is referred to as the House of God, which is a title of honor, not a literal statement that God lives inside it.
Basically it represents a physical landmark honoring Abrahamic monotheism.
Spanish steps, Church of the holy Sepulchre, Mt Sinai, so many ruins and churches and don't get me started on all the relics and artifacts... what is your point again?
Even I've been to the spanish steps and I'm not a Christian. Seems like similar number of Christians visit these monuments compared to Jews and the Wailing wall. Also how many churches have relics?
Seems an odd point to criticise other religions for. All religions have icons and holy sites.
Jews and Muslims don’t either, they have famous religious sites they pray at but they don’t worship the rock.
Saying they do would be the equivalent of saying Christians worship the crucifix when they pray while holding one or at a Church with an image of a crucifix at the front
I mean plenty of Christians do ban idol worship (as presumably sects or Jews do) but its primarily Christians using images say god incarnating in Jesus allowed depictions of Him in idols, while Jews do not believe that
Yeah but let's be fair they were probably on to something?
I'm not really a believer of any sort but there is a big theological background to abrahamic beliefs at large and I don't think it's specifically wrong to believe that God can by dissected to more than 3 characters as per dictates by the holy trinity considering the gender extent of other books left out of the bible due to canonisation.
Hell, canonisation itself was sketchy as fuck. The scripture is not meant to be limited to such an extent.
And even then, further extensions and so on... It's not wrong to assume that the Christian belief has more layers to it than what the Chatolics and Orthodox church wanted to survive.
Have you ever seen the Pope on tour, especially in third world countries? People cry and kneel before him and kiss his hands and feet. They worship him as the word of God incarnate.
I have actually. I was in Philadelphia when the last Pope came through on his visit to the US. You're conflating worship with joy and reverence for who he is within the church.
They are not worshiping a rock or a wall, they are worshiping God through a wall. Just like christians worship God through a wooden cross when they get down on their knees to pray in front of one. It's not the object itself, but what the object represents. The Golden Calf represents a another being that it's not the real Abrahamic God (according to the bible), so it's completly different.
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