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on the last comment on "the Koran's claim to absoluteness"
I can't speak on how widespread the belief in the infalibility of the Koran is in the modern world, but I think it's a stretch (at least in today's USA) that Christians don't believe in "hell, in the angels, or in the earth having been created in six days". They do. At least when they identify themselves to me, there is an expression that to them the Bible is absolute and infalible.
Considering how things are going politically here I see that the sorts of things happening culturally in the Middle East could happen here in less than a generation. The countries that are laboring under fundamentalist regimes today were modern leaning and secularly goverened less than 50 years ago.