"...The political element to Islam is intrinsic, while Christianity did not have political aspirations at its founding, relying on the Second Coming."
Er... I think you need to compare apples to apples, not to oranges.
You need to look at the religions as they are today, (not 'at their founding').
I think you'll find it very hard, perhaps near impossible, to argue that Christianity, in more recent decades such as present times, throughout the era of Colonialism, the British Imperial times, certainly as far back as the Crusades, and, I'd argue since it's very early days once it was officially adopted as the official state religion by the expansionistic Roman Empire, has not been "expansionistic" too.
That is why I say that the most expansionistic of all world religions are two of the so-called 'desert religions', Christianity and Islam. |
