{"id":22636,"date":"2010-08-20T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22636"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:11:38","slug":"jewish-law-vs-islamic-law-vs-christian-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22636","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Law Vs Islamic Law Vs Christian Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharia\"><em>Sharia<\/em><\/a> is Islamic religious law. Jews have an analogue &#8212; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halakha\"><em>halakha<\/em><\/a>. Christianity does not have an all-embracing law that governs everything you do. <\/p>\n<p>There was a time in Jewish history when Jews sought a halakhic state. Now the vast majority of religious Jews have made peace with the fact that halakha is a personal matter and only in a few issues in Israel would it matter for state policy. For example, do you serve kosher food on El Al airlines? The IDF in Israel does serve kosher food.<\/p>\n<p>A major difference is that Judaism, at its most, has only believed in a halakhic state for Jews. There was never a notion that the non-Jew anywhere else in the world is obliged to halakha (and only in Israel in a few areas in a utopian scheme of things). The concept is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>For Muslims, that is a different story. The desire to have all of humanity governed by sharia is a fundamental Muslim goal. Christians would like the world Christian but it doesn&#8217;t come with any Christian law as such. People&#8217;s faith and hearts might be changed but there is no religious body of law governing all of life. <\/p>\n<p>There are many aspects of sharia that are morally troubling. Wherever Islam has been put into practice by a state, there are sharia practices that are immoral such as the couple just stoned in Iran or the banning of women driving in Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n<p>It may not be driving. It might be holding hands in public or wearing a skirt near the knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: Sharia is Islamic religious law. Jews have an analogue &#8212; halakha. Christianity does not have an all-embracing law that governs everything you do. There was a time in Jewish history when Jews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,139,31],"tags":[23379,29761,8337,23377,23378,9461],"class_list":["post-22636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-islam","category-judaism","tag-body-of-law","tag-dennis-prager","tag-el-al-airlines","tag-islamic-religious-law","tag-religious-body","tag-religious-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22643,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions\/22643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}