Danial, With all due respect, I would take great exception with the core assumption of your argument. You're saying ... "I have a feeling the world will be their authentic selves spiritually again in Europe, Asia and Africa when they go back to their native and indeginous beliefs that pre-existed Christianity and Islam that have robbed them of their original beliefs instead of following foreign religions of Christianity and Islam which neither of them have anything to do with being Indo-European beliefs" ... and to that, I have to very much disagree. I guess inherent in that overall assumption, I hear echoes of the idea of the Noble Savage. That is - that things were so great in so many countries before Christianity came in, destroyed the native beliefs, which were so much better, and messed things up. It's the idea that things were so much better back then. I'll give you one good example of how that's simply not true -- The Waoranis and the Huaoranis (collectively known as the Auca People) of the Amazon Rainforests of Ecuador. Operation Auca is a famous well known incident that happened in 1956. Five Christian missionaries led by Jim Elliot were murdered by the Waorani when they went to evangelize them. Later, the wives of those men became missionaries to those same people (the ones who'd murdered their husbands) and eventually the entire tribe converted to Christianity. Now according to the Auca themselves, they say that life is so much better for them since they've given their hearts to Jesus. For thousands of years before that, the two tribes had been in a seemingly endless cycle of brutal, savage, war between them. They do not say that life was better for them back then. For them, accepting Jesus has healed the rift between the two peoples. It ended the fighting and brought peace to them. This idea that life was so much better in Europe, in Africa, etc. before Christianity, honestly isn't true. There's a reason that many people choose Christianity. Many find themselves experiencing a great sense of freedom and liberty. For them beforehand, whatever god or religious system they were under ... those people felt the weight of living under a religious system. In some cases, the payment that was demanded in some of those systems involved human sacrifice. They were in an endless cycle of Religion, trying to figure out -- what must I do in order appease this god or goddess in order to merit favor and become worthy of the afterlife. Authentic Biblical Christianity is not about "What Must I Do?" ... it's about "It's already been done FOR YOU." That's why it spread like crazy in the 1st Century ... and why it's spreading like crazy inside Iran today, for that matter.

Danial, I want you to know that I’m speaking from the bottom of my heart. I truly cannot fathom the level of the pain and suffering that the Iranian People have endured these past 47 years. My eyes literally are filled with tears as I’ve listened to numerous accounts of the brutal and savage treatment by the Islamic Regime the past half a century. I really and truly do cry for the Iranian People. They have turned Iran, as Goldie Ghamari has said, into an Islamic 7th Century Hellhole. The Islamic Regime really and truly have sought to erase Iranian culture and identity. And what parts they haven’t been able to do so, they’ve co-opted and taken over. Iran was a civilized country with a rich culture that goes back thousands of years. I’m 55 years old. I know and remember what Iran was like before the Iranian Revolution. What the Islamic Regime has done to the Iranian People are unspeakable crimes against humanity. I fully believe that there is a judgment coming for these utterly evil people who have propagated these crimes. Let me just say that I don’t believe any of them will be seeing 72 virgins. If you hear nothing else that I write, I want you to hear this. I’ve realized we’ve actually been talking past one another … instead of connecting with and seeking to understand one another. I know there is a vast difference between the two of us and the worlds we’ve grown up in. In reality, I’ve been communicating with you from my world and my life’s experience. You see, I’ve grown up in a world of freedom. I’ve grown up in a country where there’s separation between church and state — where the government isn’t forcing you to follow a particular faith. Here in America, you can follow any religion you want… or you can have absolutely none. No one is going to torture you or kill you if you leave the accepted state religion. Atheists are accepted here. I’ve not grown up under a totalitarian regime. We don’t have Basij morality police who beat women if they show too much of their inherent physical beauty … and stop cars at checkpoints to check for and confiscate illegal contraband. I’ve not experienced a government that’s slaughtered my mom and dad in cold blood …or brutally raped and tortured my sister.