12-31-2006, 12:48 AM
Peace :peace:
Quote:So the Muslim population is growing faster than the world population.
So here's my take...
No doubt there are many people worldwide "reverting" to Islam. That's fine! I don't have a problem with that. But it makes me wonder how many Muslims would "convert" to other religions if there wasn't severe punishment for apostasy in Islam ??? I know many people who have escaped from the East in fear that they'll be killed by authorities/extremists because they've denounced Islam.
From memory (Society & Culture - my senior year), the average Muslim family (one wife) consists of about 5 children, whereas, for non-Muslim couples its about 2. I applaud Islam for its fertility rates :thumb:
Let's face it, the sexual revolution has done the West NO favours! When Blessed Mother Teresa was asked by an American journalist how she can believe in a Loving God when there is so much poverty, disease, animosity & misery in the world, she replied by saying that all the people whom God sent to put an end to these atrocities were aborted in their mother's womb. I'll let you ponder that though for a while.
Okay... so at the end of the day, it's all about being "fruitful & multiplying" (God's very first commandment to Adam & Eve). Keep producing souls like John Paul II, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Bob Geldof & Muhammad Ali & we'll have no reason to compare quantities but rejoice at the quality of life :) Amen?
RT, I'm anticipating your right hand punch ;)
God bless.