Re: Chinese vs. Western Advances

[Guest guest]

>So, I think it is less about grains and more about

>religious world-view.

>

>JK

>

Just fascinating! And what do you think of the idea that agriculture

enabled the western religious view?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1443258,00.html

" The Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - were

constructed by recently settled nomads. These are people who were likely

to have been making use of soils such as lithic xerepts and xeralfs.

Nomads, being without permanent homes, characteristically have no local

deities: most of them worship a single God of the heavens. The Turkana

of northern Kenya use the same word - Akuj - to mean both sky and God.

The Mongols, Turks and Tartars all worshipped Tengri, God of the Blue Sky. "

Maybe there IS some connection. The article is a good read in any case.

Deanna