re: #109 Desmond

And how did you come to this conclusion? Hypothetically, what type of evidence would make you reconsider?

A controlled sociological study where environmental variables, including external influences, are ruled out, showing a statistically significant proportion of adherents to one religion predisposed towards violence. All subjects would of course need to come from similar socioeconomic backgrounds and be raised in similar environments, preferably one that mimics what we see in terms of Western liberalism, as you put it, in order to isolate other factors from the equation.

As for your other comments, I can’t imagine why folks in the Middle East would have tended towards fundamentalism over the past 50 years, it’s not like anything has happened in that region that would cause substantial upheaval and chaos, with no economic impacts. Nope, it’s all that pesky Islam.

If you really think Islam is the worst religion ever, what’s next? Clearly, if it’s bad, that means you want to stop people from practicing it, right? Because it encourages violence and fundamentalism? Please, clarify for me. Since you like to ask lots of questions trying to get people to agree that Islam is the worstest, explain what should be done next if we agree. How does your criticism of Islam as horrible fix anything?