Hmm. While that's true, Keith (I'd guess that you should have said the vast majority of Muslims), we wouldn't have had the Crusades without Christianity and we wouldn't have a bellicose Jewish state without Zionist Judaism. By saying that, one is not saying that all Christians and Jews are evil people. It's tiny minorities who instigate such things. By saying that certain extreme elements in Islam are responsible for radicalising susceptible young people, one is not being Islamophobic. My main gripe with all religion, aimed in this thread mostly at Catholicism as that's central to the thread, is that its adherents, quite often even the mild and moderate-sounding types (they are usually no such thing), have a penchant for trying to entrap young people very early. They will go to almost any length, including herding them to services to chant brainless prayers and forcing them to endure religious miseducation (by which I mean being lied to under a crucifix on the classroom wall). If that didn't happen I'd have very little to say about religion at all. Mind you, if that didn't happen, religion wouldn't last very long. Indoctrination and infiltration into almost every aspect of society are its only strategies for survival.
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