[Buddha-l] NYTimes.com: Let Us Pray for Wealth

[curt]

Tim Bovee/Datni LLC wrote:
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> Requiring "face the planet" as the field of action pretty much limits things
> to Western Christianity sometime after 1600, no? Only the Europeans
> developed global reach.
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The Christians and Muslims both managed to wipe religions off the face 
of the planet well before 1600. In particular they wiped out *all* other 
religions besides their own and Judaism from Europe, North Africa and 
the Middle East. I think that both Christianity and Islam follow the 
motto: "Think globally, extirpate locally."

If anyone knows of any evidence for any survival of any religions from 
Europe, North Africa or the Middle East - other than Christianity, Islam 
and Judaism - that would be another significant contribution to human 
knowledge. There are hints and indications here and there - but nothing 
that is definitive.

Curt Steinmetz