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I suppose I shouldn't have given "points to Christianity". I'd even reconsidered writing that, but I went ahead and put it because it sounded reasonable. What I meant was that the recording teachings of Isho' seem more reasonable to me than the recoreded teachings of Muhammad, assuming the above citation is fairly well representative. But I've never read the Quran, so I don't know...
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I don't think your gut feeling was entirely unreasonable, though, Tim. Christianity and Islam took hold in cultures that were already fairly different from each other. For one thing, early Christianity was primarily urban, while early Islam was not, and rural cultures have different concerns than urban ones.
So, it seems to me that we can't necessarily seperate the secular causes from the religious ones.
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I suppose the people in those first-gen muslim countries already were the way they are then, socio-psychologically, and the passing of time didn't have the same effect it had in the west.
A bit of a tie-in to the rural stem of the culture/religion.
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