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What allowed Christianity to evolve was, in a large part - a growing recognition of the incredible damage continuous religious warfare had done to Europe through the ages, the advent of science and secularism over religion in the west and the deliberate distancing of religion from government and of the place religion held in the political sphere during the Enlightenment. It had less to do with the Christians themselves and more to do with a long, gradual trend towards secularism, the advent of representational government, prosperity, science and industrialization.Islam has not yet had this large scale reform. Many of the countries in which Islam dominates are still caught in a pre-industrial mindset and medievil culture. Islam is currenty caught in a cultural battle with the West and with secularism. Many of those countries have made a jump from a tribal infrastructure to prosperous, oil rich nations (Saudi Arabia for example) in literally 3 generations. That is not long enough to change ingrained ways of thought and life.
What allowed Christianity to evolve was, in a large part - a growing recognition of the incredible damage continuous religious warfare had done to Europe through the ages, the advent of science and secularism over religion in the west and the deliberate distancing of religion from government and of the place religion held in the political sphere during the Enlightenment. It had less to do with the Christians themselves and more to do with a long, gradual trend towards secularism, the advent of representational government, prosperity, science and industrialization.
Islam has not yet had this large scale reform. Many of the countries in which Islam dominates are still caught in a pre-industrial mindset and medievil culture. Islam is currenty caught in a cultural battle with the West and with secularism. Many of those countries have made a jump from a tribal infrastructure to prosperous, oil rich nations (Saudi Arabia for example) in literally 3 generations. That is not long enough to change ingrained ways of thought and life.
