Similarities and Differences in the Islamic and Catholic Faith

The division between the Islamic and Catholic faith continues to grow everyday,. Throughout history there have been many wars that stemmed from this dispute and millions of people have lost their lives. However, most people fail to recognize that both of these religions are have many similar teachings despite their differences.

For starters, both the Catholic and Islamic faith are monotheistic; that is they each only believe in one God. But the difference between the God that they believe in is that the Islamic faith says that we are slave-like servants to God and we cannot have a Father and child relationship with God. The Islamic faith rejects the more intimate relationship with God and man , but this is very contradictory to the Roman Catholic Church's belief. The Catholic Church believes that God created man to share in his divine life and to be with him for the rest of eternity. This is the proof that God wants to have an intimate relationship with mankind and his love for us can be seen through his mercy and different opportunities he grants us to become closer to him.

Another topic in which the two faiths are similar is that they believe in the covenant of marriage. They believe that man and woman were meant to share a relationship with one another. The great difference between this philosophy is that the Islamic faith believes in polygamy, whereas the Catholics believe in marrying just one man or woman. This is because the covenant of marriage requires both the man and woman of that marriage to devote their complete love to one another, as opposed to polygamy where in a person's love is spread among each spouse.