God. Lo! He loveth not wrongdoing." (The Quran
42:39)
Monssticism and Celibacy
Christianity is too other-worldly, Jesus Christ is re-
ported to have told the people, "If a man come to
me, and hatee not his father and his mother, and
wife, and children, and bretheren, and sisters, yea.
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciples."
(L.ke 14:26) And again: ,whosoever he be of you
that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be MY
disciple." (L,,k-c 14-.33) When a man told him that
he would follow him, but he should be allowed to go
and bury his dead father, Jesus is reported to have
said "Follow me; and let the dead bury the dead."
(Matthew 8:22) He even told the people to "make
themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's
sake.” (Matthew 19: 12) The outcome of such a
teaching can only be the production of stunted and
contorted hypocrites instead of full grown human