Compare and Contrast between The Quran and The Book of Mathew

Collective Unconsciousness in Religion

As both from essentially the same source, and as both from the people of the book, both Islam and Christianity share inevitable roots and similarities that sometimes seem nonsensical: the contentious animosity between the western world that supports Christianity and the eastern world that bolsters Islam is arguable the most significant obstacle that the globe faces today.

 

             The Book of Mathew and The Quran each acts as a fundamental scripture of its respective religions, but they contrast in their core elements, not only in the facts than they outline: the Quran views Jesus as a false prophet while The Book of Mathew builds its story upon that Jesus is the messiah.

 

             Nevertheless, the psyche underlying the two religions, or all religions can be bridged back to Carl Jung’s collective unconsciousness: religion is a mode for individuals to seek protection. The human mind naturally longs for protection and reliance, and history serves as a testament to the fact.

 

             Naturally, we avoid dangers and hope that the world beyond reality would solve much of the problems that we face; in essence, religion is the world beyond the genuine, the comfort that we seek against the dangers and uncertainties that life forces one to face. All religions, therefore, in the perspective that human beings always long for safety, share a collective unconsciousness.

 

             Christianity and Muslim share a collective unconsciousness that is more profound that the one that all religions serve to. Three religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are from similar roots: they share the same history, and they refer to each other as the “people of the book”. In essence, the three religions carry implications that those of a same country would do: they are tied under one core value that not only illuminates that there is only one God, but also the existence of Jesus or prophets that are to teach and care for the humanity that is often plagued with sins such as polytheism.

 

             Thus, while the two religions may differ on its own perspective of a particular prophet, and who is an important figure, their histories and core values are in common. In Christianity, a leading figure, Jesus comes to preach civilizations that are of grave consequences, and in Islamic text, the Quran, prophet Mohammad arises to depict the faults of polytheism in Mecca. The collective unconscious that Jung highlights so fanatically also is hidden: leading figure, Jesus and Mohammad establish a context for future development of a religion.

 

             In as much a psychological text and the two religious relate, the hidden connections in the three texts imply much about any societies that operate in the contemporary age.

 

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