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To: DMaA who wrote (1135)	9/17/2006 7:12:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

But there have been generations of arguments about exactly what that one means. Sounds like it means that there's a class structure in heaven. <g> Islam right now has something in common, it would seem, with Protestantism in that neither speaks with a single voice. With Catholicism you have a hierarchy and a final authority. With the others you have a whole lot of different perspectives. Each religion stays within a range, but it's a pretty broad range. A lot depends on the culture in which the sect operates. If the culture is a liberal democracy, you get a tendency towards one part of the range across religions. If the culture is barbaric, as in is in parts of the ME, you get a different part of the range. Religion and culture are not independent, but they are not exactly the same thing. I would expect Islam to be more mellow when practiced within a liberal democracy.