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To: yonif
Hmmm, according to this expert Christianity is actually growing faster than Islam;

"But, argues Philip Jenkins recently in the Atlantic Monthly, Christianity is the religion currently undergoing the most basic rethinking and the largest increase in adherents. He makes a good case for its militancy most affecting the next century."

''For obvious reasons,'' notes this professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, ''news reports today are filled with material about the influence of a resurgent and sometimes angry Islam. But in its variety and vitality, in its global reach, in its association with the world's fastest-growing societies, in its shifting centers of gravity, in the way its values and practices vary from place to place--in these and other ways, it is Christianity that will leave the deepest mark on the 21st century.''

(Christianity, not Islam, is faith to watch/ The Chicago Suntimes | 11/30/02 | DANIEL PIPES)

46 posted on 03/02/2003 3:03:51 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Jorge
Being Christian does not mean you are automatically in the American capitalist group. It can mean you are in the European socialist group. So an increase in Christianity is not necessarly mean an increase in favorite American capitalistic supporters.
51 posted on 03/02/2003 3:31:56 PM PST by yonif
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