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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (202823)	9/13/2006 2:43:53 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I think that Chesterton in an abbreviated way was emphasizing the simplicity of Islam, its lack of complexity, its reliance on one way, the Book as a revealed inalterable word of God, Sharia as His revealed inalterable law, and its basic tenet that everything is predestined and planned by God, as the source of his notion that Islam is ultimately quite authoritarian as it does not permit dialogue, compromise, doubt, independent inquiry, growth, and ultimately the fruits of these which is tolerance. Catholicism was very much the same way but has changed or was changed by the Reformation and other subsequent events. Islam has not undergone this kind of transformation and indeed forcefully rejects it. Islam's authoritarian streak seems to ebb and flow as the fortunes of its various authoritarian factions similarly grow and subside. This is the emptying and filling of the void to which I think Chesterton referred. However you may disagree with the way Chesterton arrives at his conclusions, I find it very difficult to argue with the conclusions themselves.

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