Cheney dogged again

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Originally Posted by Elspode

...it seems to me that any religion whose doctrine officially sanctions shoving itself down the throat of others is eventually going to resort to throwing tantrums and claiming that it is under threat and persecution in order to further its immuatable goal...conversion of everyone.

[tasteless joke]Nah, the Jews make it pretty damn hard to convert and they've been throwing tantrums about persecution for thousands of years.[/tasteless joke] *ducks and runs*

But seriously, you should think of it in terms of natural selection. Any religion which espouses evangelism and easy conversion is going to survive, and those which do not will remain a perpetual minority at best. Hell, the Shakers believed in no sex for anyone ever, and that clearly worked out well for them. The Catholics, on the other hand, have maintained large numbers worldwide at least partially through the proscription of birth control. Take heart: Paganism has quite a few survival instincts as well, it'll just take awhile for it to find a biological niche to fill.