In article <475c48ed$1@news.povray.org>, nos### [at] nospamcom says...
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:08:46 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> > In article <4758485d$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> >> Jim Henderson wrote:
> >> > Why does it have to be Christians, though?  How's about Buddhism?
> >> 
> >> That's fine. I don't think Buddhists are theists, tho. Or, at worst,
> >> they worship someone who said "don't worship me."  However, I'll
> >> happily admit I know very little about buddhism.
> >> 
> > I don't know a *lot* about it either, but strictly speaking there are
> > two reasons you don't see them as powerful as Christianity (though
> > technically Islam is at least twice as large as Christianity and more
> > cohesive, so...), or as prone to kill/conquer and/or convert people to
> > make them Buddhists.
> 
> Um, Islam and Buddhism are two entirely different things, Patrick...
> 
??? What are you on about? I mentioned Islam as a side point, saying 
that its was at lest twice as large as Christianity. The intent was to 
draw a parallel between Christianity and Islam, in that both are very 
large and powerful, and they ***got that way*** by being prone to 
kill/conquer and/or convert people, something Buddhists, by comparison 
are not. In fact, it doesn't make any sense imho, for you to interpret 
it otherwise, since if I was attempting to claim that Buddhism and Islam 
where the same, I would have to be arguing:

Islam > Christianity > Buddhism

*AND*

Islam = Buddhism

Which is just mathematically and logically impossible, given the former 
statement.

But yeah, strictly speaking, I wasn't as clear as I could have been.

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