From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 04:30:27 MDT
>A Reformation is the last thing Islam needs right now -
>fundamentalists are very similar in their rhetoric and analysis to
>people such as Luther and Calvin. The Reformation did not make
>Christianity more mellow or rational, on the contrary it reversed a
>movement towards rationalism in the writings of people like Erasmus
>and made Christianity (both Catholic and Protestant) much more
>dogmatic and intolerant.
Thank you for pointing out my mistake, Steve. I had thought that
the Christian Reformation did the opposite of this, that is, cause
a reanalysis and subsequent mellowing of the more extreme elements
of the religion. I have to study a little more religious history,
obviously !
Amara
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