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The American system was built for that Christian sects could live together.
While this made sense to them, it did not include Native Americans.
Native Americans had a deeper spiritual life, saw it as a guiding force, a living thing.
As Americans were civilized, they had Saloons, whore houses and churches, they could not grasp the idea that The Great Spirit lives in the heart of men.
Native Americans tried to understand, even went to church, but the teachings and the practices did not match.
What has happened to Native Americans, loss of history, culture, community, language, religion, national dress, is what Muslims have resisted. Missionaries never converted them.
India and China rejected missionaries. There was no long time result.
Christians have only managed to convert and establish Christian Communities in sub Saharan Africa.
They have an IQ of 70. Where Christian faith is strongest, The Bible Belt, is not the intelligent or technological part of the country.
Christians had an advantage, 500 years of free murder and colonial exploitation, and Christian teachings at the point of a sword. It failed to take root almost everywhere. Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Confucians, remained unchanged.
In rural south America, the churches are painted in the bright colors of the Mayan and Aztec and decorated within with the plants the old religion used, people bring jugs of water to be blessed. Here and there, Mary has been converted into an Aztec goddess, and the dark skinned Jesus another old god.
Mayan and Aztec were not spoken, they were trade languages, much as Europe used Latin. Now it is Spanish which is not spoken in the villages. Priests drank themselves to death trying, and church life continued without them. While they are claimed as Christian, no one understand their language, rituals, offerings and blessings.
It is not just the far deep jungles, the Flagellate in New Mexico have ritual whipping, starting young, and progressing to blood covered and passing out. They claim their offering and sacrifice gives them a closer connection to the Saints, as they call the Gods. There is also a festival where a child is brought into the family, dressed, fed, spoken to, then killed and eaten as a messenger to god.
African and South American Christian churches are not worshiping the same god as Kansas.
The Christian Bible is first stolen from the Jews, grafting a Greek concept of Hero Worship religion, fan fiction, that has gone through many edits and rewrites. The Koran is word for word as Muhammad dictated it, and as his closest friends agreed, at the time of his death.
The Mosque is a community center, the congregation picks the Iman, someone they respect from their group.
There are other Imans, teachers, and they might form Iman Clubs, but the structure of the religion is flat.
At the call to prayer all people go to the Mosque to worship. Some more than others, but they all worship at the same Mosque. The Prince, the Banker, the Merchant, with the street vendor and the water seller. The community is flat.
Islam includes a social system. Give 2.5% of your income to the poor. This includes the poor, everybody is to share, and it is open, you chose what poor to support. It was the original Kickstarter.
So is directed, Widows, orphans, the sick. Take care of everyone in your community.
Some of the land laws were if a field is not used for three years, anyone can use it. To possess something, it must be used. No one could own more land than they used.
There are more women than men, men should take more than one wife.
Islam did this in the 700s, the next Social Security System of giving money to the widows, orphans, sick, old, was in Germany in 1894. The US did it in 1933.
Taking land from the rich and giving it to the working poor happened in the Communist Revolution, 1917.
Women had defined rights, they could inheret, have property. In the west they were Chattel until 1920.
Andalusia, Spain, 1300 was the site of the first university in Europe, where the well to do sent their children. Islam educated Europe.
The works of the Greeks and Romans had been destroyed in Europe, by the church, Islam had translated them into Arabic, and returned the knowledge and wisdom of the past, that had been lost for 800 years.
Having driven Islam out of Europe at the demand of the Church, the filthy Europeans then died of Plague for 300 years, because they did not bathe, and did not understand simple sanitation.
1300 Fibernacci was the son of a merchant in Algeria and a school boy. Returning to Italy he brought Arabic numerals, the concept of Zero, Algebra, to a land that had only Roman Numerals.
In the same time and place, Ibn Khaldun wrote about everything important. History, Government, Economics, Socialology, and is consided the father of four or five sciences.
Tamerlane conquered from Asia to Egypt, and sent a message, he wanted to meet khaldun. After their meeting he went back to Asia.
There were no books and few stories in Europe. The Song of Roland is the first in French, El Cid in Spanish. Chaucer is hardly understandable as English, and is more Norse and German. Our modern languages appear about 1500. Shakespeare was a first user.
Arabic had been written and read for 750 years over a wide area reaching out past India and down into Africa.
Muslim is no doubt the superior culture, our relation with them for the last 500 years has involved ships, canons, and demanding they convert to Christian.
I still think they should not be allowed to invade Europe and America. They will not change, and we are in the wrong, but we are good at killing people.
That is part of the problem, we killed a million in Iraq, for some reason. Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, now Syria, which in proportion would be them killing fifteen million of us, we would notice.
We could stop killing them, stop arming hired guns, and support their rebuilding. That would be easy.
It would be harder to convince the West that other points of view are valid. They are just not ready.
It would be best to Keep West West, and East East.
We could also put 2.5% of our income toward the poor, about $2 Trillion a year, and see what happens.
09 Dec 2015, 5:41 pm
