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 of flesh and blood we live, and man cannot be expected to accomplish the impossible. Christianity is a kill-joy religion, and makes no provision for the weakness of the flesh. Islam does. Christian ideals are unattainable and unworkable. Islam is both easy and workable. But perhaps there may be such a thing as a religion being too easy, and too workable for man's

good. Was not Browning thinking of this when he

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said. Heaven must exceed our grasp,

Or what's a heaven for?

8. Christians are hypocritical. They do not live up to their religious ideals. They call Jesus the Prince of Peace, and yet no nations today fight as much as the Christian nations do. The World War was a terrific blow to the prestige of Christianity among the nonChristian peoples of the East. Jesus bade his followers be pure in heart, and yet Christian lands are not free from prostitution and the white slave traffic. Not only so, but the great freedom between the sexes is highly detrimental to morality. Jesus forbade divorce except for adultery, and yet divorce has become a great social disease of Christian countries, particularly in America. What can Christians say to this just criticism?

9. Christianity sanctions the use of alcoholic liquors., whereas Islam enforces prohibition. Of course it is not correct to say that the use of liquor is sanctioned by Christianity, but the fact that liquor is used so freely in Western Christian nations and often by

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