Doug Henwood wrote:
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> With which I completely agree, but it's not as if Islam is the
> embodiment of reason either, is it?
Actually, in comparison with Christianity, and overlooking the modern distortions under imperialist pressure, Islam is sort of an embodiment of reason. No Trinity! No incarnate God. Hence no mystery required to avoid polytheism.
Any religion begans to assume the body of the social relations within which it manifests itself; Italian Catholicism is really not the same as Irish Catholicism or Irish-American catholicism, etc. And contrast presbyterianism in Northern Ireland and Prebyterianism in the u.s.
Carrol