[Capt. Tom]

Islam's appeal, wherever it has triumphed, has been in its simplicity. It requires submission to some basic, straightforward rules which are easily kept, and in return it offers that most wonderful and rare commodity, peace of mind.

Christianity has that appeal but Islam has another appeal that Christianity lacks. You get to kill people with the approval of God. - tom

[livius]

Islam's appeal is exactly that - it's a complete religious and political system that means never having to think again. And you get to kill anybody who doesn't agree with you.

That said, the author's points about the collapse of Christianity are certainly accurate. With Vatican II, the Catholic Church abandoned the entire ethical, moral and theological structure of traditional Catholicism, and since most Protestant churches - whether they knew it or not - had always tacitly depended on the Catholic Church to uphold these standards, once it collapsed, there was no bulwark.

Basically, all the Christian churches (except for isolated congregations here and there) threw their believers to the wind, abandoned the poor to lives without structure and meaning, and went off to indulge themselves in feel-good Marxism and sexual dilly-dallying.

They were false shepherds, and now the wolves are devouring the sheep.