"robin hood" <rs2405@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote > Actually, Islam generally wins as
the fastest growing major religion
> worldwide, when the focus is global expansion, rather than a single
> continent.
Is one merely to be worried about numbers?
> With the decline of faith in our modern world, the younger generation
> are starved for something to believe it, and Islam seems poised to
> provide something solid, something old and powerful.
Of course Christianity is more solid, older and more spiritually powerful
than the Islamic religions.
> Once-Christian Europe has simply quit having babies. hey,
> it's hard work being parents. Only a "third world" religion willing
> to get their hands dirty?
A strange way to put it, to say the least. And why do you think 'third
world' peoples are having more children than Europeans, for instance?
Certainly a willingness to 'get their hands dirty' is not the reason!
Pat Buchanan speculates that the West faces
> ultimate demise unless they regain the fire of their traditional
> faith.
I listen to him. When did he say this and in what context, I wonder?
I think political issues are the driving force behind much of the touted
expansion of Islamic religions. Not all, but certainly many who espouse
Islam are seeming to receive from that teaching permission or even
directives to do really destructive and evil things in the name of their
'faith'- both to other cultures and to their own diverse sects.
Does Islam work to improve living conditions, social inequities, promote
the
global community in feeding the hungry, caring for widows and children
better than Christianity?
Not to get hysterical about the growth of the religion of Islam, but be
mindful that it is not merely a religion that is growing here.
Blessings,
Ann
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