True Christian Religion (Chadwick) n. 831

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831. The Mohammedans' hostility to the Christians is primarily due to the Christians' belief in three Divine Persons, leading to the worship of three Gods and three Creators; and with the Roman Catholics as well because of the way they bend the knee before images. Indeed they call the Catholics idolaters, and other Christians they call fanatics, saying that they make God three-headed, saying one but muttering three. Consequently they accuse them of splitting omnipotence into three, instead of acknowledging the single omnipotence of the one God. This, they say, makes them like fauns with three horns, one for each God, and with three together for the one God. This, they say, is the burden of their prayers, their hymns and the sermons from their pulpits.


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