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Some of the Similarities Between Islam and Mormonism Include:

5/17/2015

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  • Both religions prohibit alcohol consumption.
  • Both religions have an obligatory payment to religious authorities. The Muslim is required to pay 2.5% of his or her income -- if he or she refuses, then this person might be considered an apostate, which could be dangerous. The Mormon is tithed at 10%.
  • Both religions prohibit gambling .
  • Unlike the heaven of Christianity, in which people become unmarried angels (Matthew 22:30), in the heaven of the Muslims and that for the Mormons there are plenty of spouses and sexual relations.
  • Both religions prohibit homosexuality.
  • Both religions introduce a new religious book, with the Mormons it is The Book of Mormon, and with the Muslims, The Quran.
  • Both religions have periods of fasting: Mormons with their Fast Sundays, and Muslims with their month-long Ramadan.
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Herman
6/4/2015 12:07:44 am

One important difference is that Mormonism was spread largely through missionaries proselytizing, while Islam spread from Arabia to Africa and also into India through military conquest.

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