Cogent observations, Ruchamah. Yada found equally disturbing parallels between Islam and Nazism. Nazism and Communism are so similar as to be indistinguishable apart from the issue of state ownership of industry. A hundred years ago, Alexander Hislop firmly linked Catholicism to the original counterfeit, the Babylonian mystery cult of Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz, the root of hundreds of pagan permutations (or features of them) from Norse legends to Islam, and from Druids to Hindus to Mayans and Aztecs. In the end, if the truth were known, I think we'd find satan to be a pathetic one-trick pony. And the pony's name is Religion.

kp

when i was married Istanbul I saw a building that was half mosqe and half catholic church and that kind of says it all!

Hello Mike,

I curious about that evidence that you mentioned. Could you please show it to me? In all my reading, it started with a megalomaniac and did not need the "help" of another religion in their neighbourhood or from across the Med. In fact, my reading leads me to infer otherwise... The rise of Islam against the peoples in the ME was religionised and it "showed-up" Christianity's lack of fervour. The Muslims were most inclined to use the sword to convert and their history records it in their own books. There is no way the Christians could have inspired this religion to take back the holy land without force. What happened is that the Christians were led into a holier-than-thou war which culminated in the Crusades and subsequent wars across the continent to this day. This one-up-manship fervour also led to the spate of religious restrictions that persecute even their own followers. Christianity's pendulum has swung from one end to the other practically "losing control" of its followers but Islam still has a stranglehold on its followers, and still wishes to impose its will upon the others.