Muslim, I find it interesting that you've chosen the name "Muslim" - as though your religion were your entire identity - why is that?
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Originally Posted by Cantando  Quote:
Originally Posted by muslim Recent statistics show that Islam is now the worlds leading religion. It is ranked No 1 having a population of 1.9 billion. | Do you have a source for those statistics?
The 2006 figures I have seen (quoted on timesonline.co.uk on 31/3/08) give:
17.4% Catholic; 19.2% Muslim; but combined Christian denominations at 33%. |
He's referring to the same figures. Catholicism was the world's most populous religion, now Islam is.
OTOH, I'm not sure why different versions of Christianity are counted separately but not Shi'ite and Sunni - Catholics are still #1 if you compare them to just Sunni Islam.
Either way, popularity is not the same thing as correctness.
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Originally Posted by Liveformx64 "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Ghandi. |
That's because Jesus' teachings make up perhaps 5% of the Bible. The bulk of the rest is the Old Testament and the teachings of Paul (a born-again evangelical Christian who never met Jesus).
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Originally Posted by munish Some People in India have made a saint out of Mahatma Gandhi . |
Quite bizarre given that he was Hindu.
On the other hand, if it means people are moving towards a broader definition of who and what is 'holy' that can only be a good thing...