{"id":183,"date":"2007-10-13T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T11:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-11-02T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:00:32","slug":"islam-and-christianity-must-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/islam-and-christianity-must-work-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam and Christianity must work together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acommonword.com\/\">A Common Word Between Us and You<\/a>,  addressed to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders, 138 prominent Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam urged Christian leaders &#8220;to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions&#8221;, spelling out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the Qur&#8217;an.\u00a0 The text focuses on principal commandments of Christianity and Islam: love God and love others.\u00a0 Whether or not you subscribe to the philosophy or rationale, there is doubt that peace is a requirement for the continued survival of humanity and the biosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter, A Common Word Between Us and You, addressed to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders, 138 prominent Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam urged Christian leaders &#8220;to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions&#8221;, spelling out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/islam-and-christianity-must-work-together\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islam and Christianity must work together<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-2X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}