I'm sure there's controversy within some of the assumptions here, but I though this was pretty interesting. In short it attempts to show how the major world religions have spread through the bulk of the earth (our country was too easy - all blue).
██ Christianity ██ Islam ██ Hinduism ██ Buddhism ██ Judaism
Thoughts? Let us pray that the blue grows during our time, since that is our responsibility. Who is the last person you spoke with about Jesus Christ?
God bless,
Jay
Hat tip to Jerry's Blog who found it at Wikipedia.
I find it interesting, how you have everything in nice little blocks Islam, Judaism ect., if it were only that simple. I just got off a website that had an ex catholic priest turned protestant, proclaiming to be more Jewish then any Rabi. Islam has none of these problems, if you decide to stray, off with your head. With a liberal media that refuses to look at the truth that maybe a religion may be at fault. Remember the crusaders?, If it weren’t for them, you would be already reading the Koran. .
A small quibble: the Philippines should be blue from the sixteenth century on or so. And I'm not aware of Buddhist domination of the islands. There was a Chinese enclave in Manila in the Seventeenth Century, though.
But you're right, it's on person at a time.
Peter,
I'm just wanting some clarification...are you saying that Islam is a religion of complete unity? If so, how do groups like Al-Qaeda fit into that statement?
I think, if anything, the root of division in religion, as well as in the world, is simple - Satan (Non Serviam) and Man's Pride.
In Christ,
Joe
Peter,
On the one year anniversary of the bombing of the golden Shia mosque of Samarah, Iraq by Sunnis, I think you should reconsider your 02/14 comments about Islam. Muslims are killing eachother in droves throughout Iraq - Sunni against Shia. There are many divisions within Islam, in addition to the Sunni-Shia rift.
All Arab leaders use the Palestinian situation as a way to deflect their responsibilities to their own people. Take their dignity, freedom, peace and liberty, but give them a good speech about the Zionists and the Imperialist Americans, and you stay in power in the Arab world. All of them hate the Palestinians, and do nothing to help them --- that, of course, is the job of the West, according to Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, Tunis and Algeria.
I'm trying to decifer your last sentence and, in particular, your usage of the word "already" in regards to our reading the Koran. I'm assuming you are Muslim, and I'd like to know what you think about the bloody divisions between Sunni and Shia throughout the middle east.
Mike