re: #65 Killgore Trout

It’s becoming a common theme among Western Christians that secularization is the real enemy turning the West against religion. They tend to see atheists as as the real enemy, and it’s an enemy they share with Islam.

Merely my personal observations, but: I think a lot of Christians feel like they’re under attack by atheists who seem to want to drive Christianity underground, but otherwise don’t give them much thought.

I also think the fact that the Christian community generally puts up with just about any offensive speech directed its way without rioting (there may be exceptions but none are coming to mind) is evidence that they don’t share a common goal with Islam in regard to the imposition of retrictions on speech. We’ve seen no real public cries for restriction on speech from the Jewish community, either - a community that arguably tolerates some of the most offensive speech in the world today.

(I know you didn’t cite the Jewish community - again, just offering an observation.)

It would seem to me that this movement toward forced restriction of anti-religious expression is coming primarily from Islam, and it’s too broad a brush to suggest that it’s being driven by the religious in general…or that Christians are somehow inclined toward this path, as well.

I’m open to seeing evidence that I’m wrong - and I acknowledge that perhaps there are nuts here and there who are/call themselves Christians - but it’s not something I have personally observed as a movement.

Which is somewhat off the beaten path from what we were originally discussing, so I’ll leave it there. : )