Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard View Post
You mean of your post? The second line.
You mean this?

"Islam is a religion whose scriptural narrative is one of conquest, that makes it quite difficult to bit the religion into a culturally subserviant place; which is where it has been for at least 400 years."

Then you have misunderstood my point, Islam has a scriptural narrative of conquest. The story in the Koran is of a man who becomes a King/Warlord and subjugates the surrounding peoples with a divine mandate. There is no comprable nattative in Christianity. That story is about a carpenter's son who spends three years wandering from town to town preaching to the masses, mainly the poor astracised and dispossesed.

My point was that Christianity is designed to function under political and cultural presures, it flourished as such until it was taken up by Constantine. In fact, Christianity has a historical problem with being "in power", the priests etc. never quite know how to act when people actually start listening and giving them nice curches to preach in and nice houses to live in.

Islam has the opposite problem, it is a religion that understands how to be politically dominant and has trouble being subserviant.