Sanders' Religion Thread, Begun @ LC Forum Options

[Sanders]

e-Dog and I have decided to re-constitute this from LC. It is a thread about the 3 major religions of the world. The goal was to follow the path of each from their common origins to the present day. We (a number of LC posters and I) got as far as the begining of the First Crusade while the thread was active.

What becomes of this thread when all the copying is done is not clear. It may be just a read-only thread for the Religion topic. Or it may be left open to posting, so we can finish the journey.

[Guest_librarian_*]

Posted by: Sanders Jul 29 2006, 07:08 PM

Sanders, where should I start? Are we past the Abraham/Ishmael/Isaac/Sarah/Hagar stage?

Or we still on the Sumerian/Materialist stage? Did we skip the Creationist, Adam/Eve stage? 

Dunno, I was hoping to get through this old testament stuff as quick as possible - to me the most pertinent stuff is the Jewish claim to Palestine, the rise of Islam, and the Crusades. But I thought everything from Abraham on should be covered at least briefly. This thread might die long before we get to the Caliphs or any of that but I'm enjoying it so far...

Add anything you think is material - and yeah, I skipped the Adam and Eve part - I want to talk about how the 3 religions are connected and have interreacted with each other over the milleniums. I was hoping to do it sequentially to keep some order to it, that's all. Funny though, once you start getting into it I can see how it might take forever.

Add what you want -