Islam! Part Deux. Now, for something completely different.
I wish Ayaan Hirsi Ali well in her exposing the ravages of Islam, but she is an atheist & this is what happens when atheists join the debate.
To atheists, ALL religions are human-generated constructs that can be flaked & formed and made into something better if only science, reason & logic (atheism’s trinity) are allowed to prevail in creating a new more benevolent order.
Needless to say this undercuts atheists’ ability to comprehend what drives the urge to believe for any pious religious person. If there is no such thing as the Divine, then the negatives of a religion are simply the result of disordered reasoning which can be gradually eliminated through rational discourse.
Pat Condell is supposed to be a great counterjihadist, but he holds Christianity in equal contempt & refrains from criticizing it only because he perceives it as not currently a retrograde force in the world. That he directs his rhetorical fire against the violence inherent in Islam is but cold comfort to Christian or Jewish believers. He is a cobelligerent, not an ally.
Those resist Islam best who know that the God of Creation is the God to call upon in the ongoing agressive war waged by those who worship a false god that they call Allah.