Religion(s)

Western Religion's in perspective
From Stewart Brand (The Clock of the Long Now)

On history ...

Religion:

“The Jews consecrated their own history, including their historic encounter with Egypt, and thus introduced the idea of history to the world. Still they sought release from history, placing the escape in the future. All the “peoples of the Book” adopted varieties of the approach. To character each of their stances: Judaism says, “The Messiah is going to come, and that’s the end of history”; Christianity says, “The Messiah is going to come back, and that’s the end of history”; Islam says, “The Messiah came, history is irrelevant.”