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original sin through the Christian Baptism; the Knowledge
of the “Holy Trinity” (Allah forbid and pardon this term!).
The feeding upon the flesh and the blood of Jesus (pbuh) in
the Sacrament of the Eucharist; the grace of making the
sign of a cross; the privilege of the keys of Heaven and of
Hell delivered to the Sovereign Pontiff; and the rapturous
ecstasies of the Puritans, Quakers, Brethren, and all other
sects called Nonconformists who, each in its own way,
while claiming the same privileges and prerogatives, all
agree that each good Christian will become on the day of
resurrection a pure virgin and present herself as a bride to
the “Lamb of God”!

Do you not think, then, that the Christians are right to
believe that the “least” among them is “greater” than John?
Do you not think, then, that a sturdy Patagonian monk
and a penitentiary Parisian nun are higher than Adam (pbuh)
and Eve, because the mystery of the Trinity is revealed
to these idiots and not to our first parents who lived with
Allah in Paradise before their fall? Alternatively, don’t
you think that this sort of belief is most unbecoming and
undignified in these lofty times of advanced science and
civilization? To claim that an English prince of an orphan
Negro is “greater” that John the Baptist (pbuh) because they
are Christians is, to say the least, abominable!

Yet all these diverse beliefs and creeds are derived
from the New Testament and from the words put into the
mouth of Jesus (pbuh) and of his Apostles. For us Muslim
Unitarians, however, there are a few scintillating sparkles
left in the Gospels; and they are enough for us to discover
the truth about the real Jesus (pbuh) and his cousin, Yohannan
Ma’mdana (John-Baptist (pbuh) ).