XPost: can.politics, alt.california, uk.politics.misc   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:37:00 -0700, Siri Cruz wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  "Byker"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Face it, Islam and democracy are incompatible.   
   >   
   > Christianity and democracy were once incompatiable. Priests claimed all   
   > communication to the divine had to go through them, and they had the power to   
   > cut people off from heaven. That gave them a lot of power they were   
   reluctant to   
   > give up. Imans currently do similar things, and they're equally hostile to   
   > losing their power to democracy.   
   >   
   > Things changed with Christians. Maybe they can change for Moslems: the   
      
   Yes.  All it took was people being able to read for themselves:   
   "wherever two or three of you ..." doesn't bode well for divinely   
   selected priesthood.  Much the same is presently happening to Islam.   
      
   Dhu   
      
      
      
   > increasingly shrill attacks on democracy sounds of desperation to me.   
      
      
      
      
      
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