> hi! thanks everyone!
>
> Lawrence DeBivort wrote:;
>
> > Christianity and Islam believe that they have a divine mandate
> to spread their
> > beliefs, certainly by the book (missionaries and teachers) and
> at certain
> > times in both their histories, by the sword if the book failed.
>
> which interestingly, is a trait that Christianity picked up as a
> Helenistic
> Judaism, a combination of the Jewish traditions of prayer with
> the philosophic
> schools' imperative to spread their philosophy, to be "right." This
> prosyletizing WAS new as a component of religion.
> And it came from the philosophers, the pioneers in intellectual thought.
>
> <grin>
<<sigh>> LOL :-)
> maggie
Lawry
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