On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Anand Manikutty <[email protected]> wrote: > couple : Ashoka's armies and the people who built the Pyramids. In each > case, there was a tangible result, viz., the conquest of Kalinga, etc. and > the construction of the Pyramids. > My original point remains : Christianity and Islam don't hold any records as > being the first time a group of humans came together for a common cause. > And, in fact, to my original point, I will add one more : Christianity and > Islam do not hold any records in terms of longevity either. Consider the > aboriginals of the Andamans. They are a people who have been united for a > common cause for much longer than Christianity, the cause being their own > survival.
The difference is that Christianity, Islam are motivated and encouraged by acts of proselytizing and conversion (Christianity was perhaps the first, neither the pharaohs, nor the romans or the greeks had such a motivation. ). To put it crudely -- this is kind of like a software virus -- i get infected -- and then i convert someone else ...and so on -- it ensures growth and a long and happy life for the faith. One can see this overwhelming force of conversion by taking an example of any of the numerous african tribes -- they have slowly become disengaged from traditional faiths and beliefs ...eventually they will lose them. The same will happen to the Andaman aboriginals (in their case the conversion is to "modernization" -- probably television, alchohol , junkfood, clothing )-- the sheer numbers are completely against them.
