Nobody that I have read on this thread, and certainly not I, have argued that Islam is "inherently" more pernicious. Inherently or not, right now it is more pernicious.Seraph wrote:I certainly grant you that, but I do not conclude from that that therefore islam is therefore inherently more pernicious than christianity.Coito ergo sum wrote:One thing we can say about the relative merits of the theocracies is that both were middle ages theocracies at the time. Christianity, however, exited the middle ages a few hundred years ago with a Rennaissance, a Reformation and an Enlightenment. Islam, quite simply, did not.
Let Christianity marry itself to the machinery of the State again, and it will rear an uglier head too. That's the thing about Islam. In countries where there are majority Muslim populations, it seems quite difficult to keep it from gumming up the governmental works.
Let them get to it then. Until then, I hate that fucking skanky religion.Seraph wrote:
If and when muslim countries develop economically along similar lines of individual acquisitiveness that occidental societies did, their believers will stop cherrypicking the brutal aspects of the quran and focus on its lovey-dovey ones, just like christians changed their focus in the past couple of hundred years in regard to the bible's content. The bourgeois nature of societies makes such changes irresistible and inevitable.
