Why are the two most dominant religions in the world..Christianity and Islam a divided lot?

Only reason is how people perceived preachings, for example, In Quran Allah says "Don't offer prayers" Now this piece clearly indicates that one must not offer pray, But the last part says it all....."Don't offer prayers, unless you are clean"...Both books bible and Quran are words of Allah, But people perceive and interpretate according to them, Probably thats the reason why so many sects within two great religions

In many cases the reasons are lost in time and we tend to follow the lead of our parents and don't question other faiths.

I was brought up in a Presbyterian house and it didn't make difference to me what church my friends went to.

I am of a generation and located in a part of the world where the majority of us were Christians.

There is no doubt there were those of other religions in the city we didn't see very much of them.

It is only in the last 20 years or so that we see Muslim women wearing headscarves.

I can understand that in other parts of the world the different religions are more closely associated.

All religions are divided into many different sects. Buddhism, Hinduism, etc, are all the same way.

Buddhism: Theravadin, Zen, Tibetan, Mahayana, many others

Hinduism: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism, to name the main ones

Judaism: Hassidic, Sephardic, Orthodox, Ultra Orthodox (Haredi)

You can't pick a long established religion that ISN"T divided into sects.

It seems to be that each of the two believe that theirs is the only "right" religion. Not everyone believes that, I certainly don't. But there are many who do. It takes a person who does not view the book word for word. I believe we are all children of God, he doesn't love one more than another. I believe that it makes Him sad that his children always fight and kill each other over the books that each group wrote. He did not write them by his own hand in a language that we all understand. Therefore I believe that a person can be of any religion, depending on what they personally believe, or be like me, and have a religion of my own that welcomes all because we are all brothers and sisters. What is better than a big, happy family full of love?

Diversification is inevitable. "...in my father's house there are many mansions." But as to the cleavage between these two Abrahamic faiths,it consists of two principal points of dissonance: Muslims regard the concept of the Holy Trinity as tantamount to polytheism,an idea Christians universally reject,deeming the Trinity to be a matter of God manifesting Himself in three aspects,while remaining a unity; and the Muslim belief that the Prophet Mohammed is the Paraclete or Divine Counselor that Christ is quoted in the Gospel of John as saying He would send to guide us until His return. Christianity obviously rejects the association. There are other issues but these are the foremost.

The devision of religion into sects was prophesized. There is a hadith which says that even muslims will be divided into sects, all in the hell fire except one.

an average group of people can't decide amongst one another on what to eat for lunch.

the fact that Christianity and Islam have even remained as major world religions for as long as they have is almost unbelievable.

All Muslims believe in the Kalimah (Creed).

Some groups have political differences.

Dont mix that with religious differences.

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It just gets more difficult to keep the lies going....

Read their holy books, you'll see why.