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In related news, when the number of Rael followers reach 144,000 the Apocalypse will happen, and only Raelians will be saved.
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Yes, but in the scheme of things, given they were a (mostly) different religion, it was pretty darned nice ... pre-Enlightenment, exactly how many other religions were that tolerant of other religions? Not a high percentage...Originally posted by lord of the mark
They were people of the book, like Christians, and had to pay special taxes, like Christians, all according to the treaty (or proclamation, or something) of Omar. This distinguished them from pagans, who in theory had no right to live at all, and could be converted by force. In fact treatment varied with time and place, as it did with Christians. That hundreds of years of toleration with non-citizenship and limitations of various kinds (in contrast to muslim members of the Ummah), punctuated by occasional severe violence, was good compared to pre-enlightenment Christianity, says something about pre-enlightenment Christianity to be sure, but hardly justifies the picture of Jewish life under Islam as somehow one long golden age.<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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for rael?Originally posted by Oncle Boris
In related news, when the number of Rael followers reach 144,000 the Apocalypse will happen, and only Raelians will be saved."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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What are they at now? Should we start worrying?
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