Motif
Religious fragmentation before the rise of a new religious movement
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Apocalypse and End Times. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II.; lines 2224-2298 confidence: medium
Christianity is described as afflicted by clerical ambition, abstruse controversy, schisms, contentions, malice, rancour, and loss of the substance of religion.
The passage portrays Christianity as divided and corrupted and explicitly says these conditions gave advantages to the propagation of Mohammedism.
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