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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (112877)	4/16/2008 9:32:58 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

I'm just re-reading the history of Byzantium. When the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches were about to reunite, after decades of negotiation, one factor broke the deal. Whether or not The Holy Spirit emanated from The Father alone or from The Father and The Son. Meanwhile, Christians are starving and the Muslims were conquering much of the world. The Mongols were conquering the rest of the world. The Christian political world (not the religion, as the Muslims allowed Christians to remain Christians, Jews to remain Jews, and some Mongol leaders were Christian) would have been dead meat, except that the Muslims couldn't get along, either, and the Mongols were conquered, intellectually, by the countries they conquered.