| Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:31 AM |
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DiamondRain
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The Vatican announced today that, for the first time ever, there are more Muslims in the world than Catholics.
19.2% of the world population are now Muslim compared to 17.4% who are Catholic.
Why?
Muslims are having more and more children, while Catholics are having fewer and fewer.
Islam, is now the world's largest religion.
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:43 AM |
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eastham
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Not just the birthrate. There are 135,000 adult converts to Islam in the US each year.
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:53 AM |
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DiamondRain
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Surely that must be because the evil US is turning people to Islam.
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:56 AM |
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Blondino
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Christianity remains the fastest growing religion in the world...
This has compared one part of Christianity to a world religion
So its not really comparing like with like ....
Why not compare Islam to Christianity or Catholicism to Sunni ?
Islam isn't divided up between Sunni, Saudi, and Kurds in the report so that is kind of misleading,because Roman Catholicism is part of Christianity
In the third world, Pentecostal-style Christianity and Roman Catholicism are still growing faster than any other religious denomination.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population -- a stable percentage -- while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080330/islam_rcs_080330/20080330?hub=TopStories
While it is a little unseemly to swap figures, a more realistic comparison would be between the Christian population of the world and the Muslim population, a comparison which would show the Christian world to be significantly bigger,
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 10:05 AM |
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DiamondRain
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Ahh yes...
But remember...
Jews make up only 0.2% of the population of the world. But they control EVERYTHING!
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 4:39 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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If you ever tried to tell my mother they didn't, DR, she'd have you drug tested 
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 4:51 PM |
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Paralegal_at_Law
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The answer to JIHAD is CRUSADE.
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:31 PM |
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Nightowl001
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So its not really comparing like with like ....
Why not compare Islam to Christianity or Catholicism to Sunni ?
Because the numbers then don't make a shiver of fear run up the backs of the uinformed who rely on propaganda to know what to think?
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:39 PM |
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uab_5
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Jews make up only 0.2% of the population of the world. But they control EVERYTHING!
Sad but true, my friend. 
That's also because historically they've had the most money on average of any religious group (except maybe scientology)
Which reminds me....
How did the first copper wire get made?
Two Jews got in a fight over a penny. 
Back on thread....
Catholics reproduce like bunny rabbits because every time they commit "original sin" the Pope disallows birth control.
Let the Moslems propagate. That means there will be that much more room in Heaven for the rest of us! 
Besides, Islam is such a horrid depressing religion that Prozac addiction will become the norm on 1/2 the Earth's surface.
boo hoo hoo. I'm not worthy of the sacrifice of Iman Hussien!
What fiddle faddle. 
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:31 PM |
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kjac
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The Vatican announced today that, for the first time ever, there are more Muslims in the world than Catholics.
19.2% of the world population are now Muslim compared to 17.4% who are Catholic.
Why?
Because a lot of people are ashamed to admit they're Catholic. The largest business in the world (Catholicism) has suffered due to the whole sex with kids thing.
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:45 PM |
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lefthandedluckie
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Not that I in anyway am intending to antagonize anyone but, whom gives a "red rump roast"?
DR....the fear factor is kinda low on this rant! But, you keep at putting up your duct tape and stocking your Fallout Shelter! You might need it....to get away from all the people you are trying to scare!
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| Mar 31, 2008 @ 10:07 PM |
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DiamondRain
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LGQ... saying that Jews control everything is about as dumb as saying all Italians are in the Mafia (I know you are part Italian so I put it in those terms). But people like it sounds like your Mom is can't be convinced no matter what. If people are hell bent on hating, and believing things that are so factually impossible that they are obviously absurd, no amount of reason or truth can get through to them.
And half of the worlds Jews don't even have time to control anything even if they could. They live in Israel and are too busy just trying to survive, surrounded by a dozen terrorist organizations, a dozen countries, and 100 times their population full of people who are all trying their best to kill them on a daily basis.
That leaves one tenth of one percent of the population of the world to control everything. MAN! People give the Jewish people a lot of credit!
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| Apr 6, 2008 @ 5:24 PM |
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Gentlegiant127
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I didn't feel like creating a new thread, so I figured I'd post this article in here.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant," and, "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
(reporter Lisa)Gardiner, who now works for a non-profit group, told WND last week she's 100-percent sure (Omar)Ahmad was the speaker and that he made those statements, pointing out nobody challenged the story at the time it was published eight years ago.
"She's lying," Ahmad said upon hearing Gardiner's defense of the story. "Absolutely, she's lying. How could you remember something from so long ago? I don't even remember her in the audience."
After hearing that news Thursday, one of the Muslim leaders immediately resurrected the issue with his colleagues, declaring Ahmad and CAIR need to find a way "to extinguish this fire."
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| Apr 6, 2008 @ 5:41 PM |
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Bj864
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Everyone has a right to choose their own religion.
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| Apr 6, 2008 @ 5:51 PM |
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steveemac
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We have erewhile declared—and Our Word is the truth—: “Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship.” Whatsoever hath led the children of men to shun one another, and hath caused dissensions and divisions amongst them, hath, through the revelation of these words, been nullified and abolished.
--Bahá’u’lláh; Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh p 95
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| Apr 6, 2008 @ 7:21 PM |
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SensualGemini
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uab: How did the first copper wire get made?
... that was funny! ...they have probably heard it, but I have to tell that to a couple of Jewish friends.
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GG: "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
...Islam from Muhammad, born around 570 CE, "retreated to a cave in the surrounding mountains for meditation and reflection"... sound familiar?
...Muhammad must have been reading the Christian Bible's rendition of Moses' life about 1900 years prior in Egypt... and just 300 or 400 miles apart.
...Then, "to escape persecution," Muhammad and his followers migrated to Medina. Oh yea, this is getting better... I can almost see the late Charlton Hesston parting the Red Sea.
...Now, most have not even read the Koran, although it is available at any public library, as well as online. I have read it and found it to be somewhat similar to the Christian Bible, albeit small and totally repetitious; saying similar things over and over.
In the writing industry, it is called "filler." Skim through it and you will not miss much.
...Most converts do not go much beyond the Koran itself, which is based on Christian principles of prior, with a few exceptions; including the allowance of polygamy that was not allowed in Christianity's New Testament, or the almost nonsensical format of divorce... where the Muslim male simply says "I divorce you" three times and that marriage is poof!
The above period was called the Meccan Period and lasted about 13 years and some would compare to Jesus' life, which if one throws in Muslim Sharia Law, a ludicicrous comparison, as Jesus never changed his character as Muhammad did as follows.
...Where it becomes interesting, is the Medinan period that followed and the further teachings of Muhammad in the Sunnah and Hadith... that typically arrives after one is converted and this is where the jihadist confirms specific phrases in the Koran and where "martyrdom" first appears. The "little" jihad is the militant aspect and self improvement is the "greater" jihad.
...The problem that has arisen with the Muslim religion, is that the religion allows for the extremes of pacifistic to terrorism that can be justified through either Muhammad's Meccan or Medinan periods of teaching.
...Add that the radicals as Osama Bin Laden and his Father have parented over 80 known children, this proliferation spreads their ideology fast... ask Lebanon.
With many of the billion-plus Muslims living in poverty or oppression, Islam has become a rallying point for independence movements worldwide. Since jihad and martyrdom were placed within a religious context during the Medinan period, some of these independence movements have deployed the same concepts as sanctified tools for motivating combatants in the face of overwhelming odds. Thus, some seek a military solution to their political aspirations. http://www.pbs.org/muhammad/ma_violence.shtml
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| Apr 6, 2008 @ 10:40 PM |
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uab_5
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SG glad you liked the joke.
And good point about Mohammed's retreat to the cave being analogous to Moses's or Jesus's exile to the wilderness.
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| Apr 6, 2008 @ 11:01 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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uab!!!
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| Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:08 AM |
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Say_Yes
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Christianity remains the fastest growing religion in the world...
This has compared one part of Christianity to a world religion
So its not really comparing like with like ....
Why not compare Islam to Christianity or Catholicism to Sunni ?
Because, if you look at DR's post, you will see that the source of the quote was the Vatican. To the catholic church (i.e., to the vatican, not every day catholics), non-catholics are not real christians, therefore, they don't count as members of the true faith. In their eyes, protestants do not share their faith and they are seen as being no different than are Jews or Muslims. In fact, all statistics on faith that source from the vatican, always view catholics separately from other forms of christianity.
Does it make sense? Not really, but then again, what does religion have to do with being sensible?
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