From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 11:03:39 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/20/00 4:14:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> neptune@mars.superlink.net writes:
>
> << Do you think religions, old and new, in the former Soviet Empire and in the
> PRC have more followers now than before on the %age basis? (Also, I think
> any idea that is suppressed is bound to have some people behind just because
> it's suppressed.) Some of the nations with the highest rates of atheism are
> former communist ones, such as Albania.
>
> Cheers! >>
> I suspect that the likeliest crops for religious missionaries to harvest will
> be the former communist states,yes. Albania is certainly involved in Islamist
> mobements funded by Iran.
Do they turn to God because they have so little faith in their fellow man, or
because so many centuries of repression has evolved those populations to be
primarilyt co-dependent type individuals?
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