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180originalsin through theChristianBaptism; the Knowledge of the “Holy Trinity” (Allah forbid and pardon thisterm!). 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 dayof 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 themis “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 realJesus(pbuh) and his cousin,Yohannan Ma’mdānā (John-Baptist (pbuh) ).