FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Any doctrine, or would be conqueror, tyrant, demagogue or dictator that opposes these two unconquerables, will go down in defeat. Witness what has happened in modern times. Fascism, Communism are both gone. Hitler and Stalin are both gone. What was their nemesis? What two things are absolutely unbeatable?

Religion and Public Opinion, alone or together, they cannot be subdued or overthrown. And the greater the number of acolytes and adherents, the stronger they become. Sometimes though, two opposing forces of equal number can compete with each other.

The peoples of Islam make up one of the most numerous religious groups. One of every five human beings is a Muslim – one billion people. There is almost no country on earth without some followers of Islam, and in such countries as Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Saudi Arabia, the population is almost totally Muslim.

The Roman Catholic Church - the largest branch of Christianity - says there are a total of 1.086 billion baptized members around the globe.