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Originally Posted by Politicon
World dominating political power? How do you figure that? Europe has all but become a secular state (or has at least rejected their historical Christian dominance) and the west isn't exactly in line with religious leaders. Is this comment directed more at the Arab world (both Jews and Muslims)?
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Look at the Roman Catholic Church before the Enlightenist Movement. The RC Church still wields as much power as many nations, and their current real estate globally, though certainly not approaching pre-EM quantities, is still formidable.
Look at any TV evangelist today, and the numbers of people they can sway, not to mention the cash they draw in. Crystal Palace anyone?
The pure political power of any centralized Christian religious denomination is certainly, and thankfully, fading, but that doesn't mean their world domination goals have become extinct. Christians still number nearly a third of the world's population after all.
Islam is certainly gaining ground on the Christians, in number and power, and the Jews cetainly have never approached that status. But Christianity, particulary RCers, still dominate the world in pure numbers.