zombie: I’m a longtime fan of yours.

I think the problem with post 29 is that Islam is indeed a religion, its just a religion with more aspects to it than North American secularists are used to seeing. I cited my own religion to demonstrate its similarity, but consider catholicism, with its canon law, military enterprises, systems of taxation, etc. Also not a religion? The fact is that Islam like many religions in exactly the way you said it is not a religion. Sikhism: is that a religion? Of course. Those guys sure know about military and civil law, as far as I can tell. It goes on. There is nothing exceptional about Islam as a religion in what you outlined.

Pluralism is a difficult course. I can’t speak for haakondahl, but it looks to me like you just told him his freingds didn’t really have a religion. In a way, you told me I didn’t really have a religion either. I just didn’t take it personally.