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To: SilentZ who wrote (380734)	4/26/2008 8:00:11 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574267

They're not comparable. I don't understand how you can compare them. You could compare Judaism to Islam or Christianity, and then that would be much more valid. And the answer would be proselytization, which Judaism has traditionally shunned. WTF are you talking about? China has grown its population by proselytization. Strange reply. I'm not referring to Jews as a religion. I'm referring to Jews as a people. I'm asking why, if you started the civilizations at about the same time, they haven't grown to roughly the same number of people. That should have happened. Maybe there should only be a billion Jews. Or even a half billion. But 15 Million? Surely, there is some logical explanation for this. It is not "proselytization" (as far as I know, the Chinese race has not grown as a result of proselytizing). I raise this question because it was raised by Netanyahu at a meeting in which the foreign leaders of China and India were present. These leaders immediately reacted with shock--their mouths flying open -- when this disparity was pointed out to them, so the issue was not lost on these individuals. It is a fact, one that is nothing short of amazing to anyone vaguely familiar with the arithmetic involved with population growth. I just wondered what those of you here think. CJ? You're a smart guy with numbers. What do you think caused it?