* lol true I don't think Islam became afraid of ideas, but
      rather those with a more By the Book way of thinking gained
      political power.

      The whole world of Islam isn't afraid of new ideas; most of
      Islam is just regular people doing what regular people do.
      Getting married, having kids, working, living lives, no
      different in whatever country they're in.

      It's only a select bunch, that also happen to be power
      hungry and have some control. Everybody else is just normal
      regular people.
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      [4]Kenneth Udut Same thing happened in Christiandom; there
      was a mess of things floating around in the 33AD-400AD range
      of time. I don't have my dates; but basically, it was a mess
      of things all calling themselves authentic. Under a single
      ruler, all the bigwigs got together and debated over the
      Bible and over some pretty detailed aspects of theology.

      The main difference is the ecumenical nature of
      Christiandom; where it was a meeting of equals.

      The West (Rome) split off somewhere in the 1100s or so - I
      don't remember the date; and formed the Roman Catholic
      Church.

      The Eastern Orthodox side maintained the ecumenical way.
      That's the main difference that I can see between how the
      shift from anything-goes in Islam vs how anything-goes in
      Christiandom took place.
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      [8]Kenneth Udut The protestant reformation, splitting off
      from the single Roman church, also became an anything-goes
      all over again... a "back to the book" - we're
      gonna-do-it-right-this-time... with various splinterings
      ever since.
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      [12]Kenneth Udut But yeah, it's interesting stuff. it's fun
      having a rounded view of history where the good guys/bad
      guys disappear and it becomes simply, "stuff happened". I
      never liked history as a kid 'cause I always wondered about
      the "other guys" that they weren't teaching me about.



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