From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 02:03:45 MDT
On Monday 01 September 2003 22:06, Terry Donaghe wrote:
> Isn't Islam a good bit younger than Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism?
> Islam is like the teenager of world religions. It took an awful long time
> for Christianity to "simmer down." Perhaps, as religions mature, their
> followers get a bit more laid back. Now, obviously some Hindus and
> Christians can still get rabble roused and incited to violence, but in
> general their followers seem to be less raucous.
I have heard this metaphorical theory before. I don't believe it is valid.
Mormonism is *much* younger than Islam but not at all violent. Many of the
world's religions were much more mellow in their beginning than later on.
Besides, can the world afford to have a violent teenager over 1.3 billion
strong loose?
- samantha
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