ISLAM

78 ISLAM VERSUS CHRISTIANITY
lor honouring pariets and the tenth classes wives
;
with asses and other chattels, and recognizes slavery.
The Hebrew word translated "Servant" means
"Slave". Besides these, the Ten Commandments do
not restrain wife, child, and slave beaters, religious
persecutors, liars (except in court) or tyrants. The
Decalogue needs recantation. It is the funniest of
all jokes that Mr. I^evonian books of this Decalogue.
The Sermon on the Mount (Math. 5, 6, 7) consists
largely of romantic nonsense. Its good doctrines were
not original. Non-resistance to evil :
(5 39-42),
improvidence (6 : 19-34), are anti-social. Jesusthinking
ignores reality. It does not work. This
sermon is merely a literary composition. It was
never preached.
As to the ethical side of Christianity, Mr. Levonian
who boasts of his "independent study coupled with
acquaintance with the original Islamic resources and
the literature and history of Islam", should not stoop
to the average stratagem of the average Church
propagandist. The moral and intellectual culture
of modern days can not be called Christian simply
because it came through those whose ancestors were
Christians. But if Christianity claims it as her own
asset, then every thing that is undesirable in the
West must go to her also. In this respect we may
say that we can not understand even the meaning
of the word "Christian" when it is used by these men.
It has become elastic
enough to mean every thing
and any thing, which results, very often, in its