Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)

Staving Tommie L Powell:
>Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > I'm curious how it happens that most of the Arabs you know are
> > Christian.  I would think that this would be an unusual situation,
> > given that most Arabs actually are Muslim.
>
>Here in the US, about half of the Arabs are Christians because they
>mostly came from the Arab countries that have had large Christian
>populations since the time of the Crusades (namely, Lebanon, Palestine
>and Syria).  One thing I find particularly disgusting about our American
>media is that, though Israel treats Palestine's Christians just as
>horribly as it treats its Moslems, our media ignore that (perhaps because
>mentioning it might make some Americans wonder why our government favors
>Jews over Christians there).

I was under the impression that Arabic Christianity was considerably more
ancient than that, dating back to the early Church - I know that there are
Christian Churches in Iraq, where I don't think the crusaders ever set
foot. One interesting fact I once learnt from an Arabic Christian - Arabic
Christians tend to refer to the "Sovereignty" of God, rather than the
"Kingdom" of God, since monarchy is generally associated with tyranny in
Arabic culture (I haven't checked this assertion with my Iraqi Muslim
friends, but one of them did agree that Saddam Husein had effectively been
a monarch).

Pete

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