Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>> ALL other religions?  Even Zoroastrianism?  What about the Cult of the
>> Giant Sheep in the Sky? :)
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> And you have something against Zoroastrianism, the probable source of
> Christianity's good vs bad dichotomy?
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>> That's impractical.  In history you learn about the things that made
>> a difference historically, not everything that happened anywhere
>> ever.  We don't spend as much time on the KKK as on the Nazis,
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> Hmm, the KKK was far more influential locally were I grew up.
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>> no religion in the world has had as much influence on current
>> geopolitical reality as Christianity.  The place under the world's
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> I believe Moslems would disagree. esp., about their importance being solely
> a geographical issue.
Even if you define "importance" in terms of contact with the Western
world, Islam has a couple of major points in its favor: Islamic
civilization preserved some important writings of Aristotle that were
otherwise lost, and then there were the Crusades.

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