[spunkets]

"Although arguably the most popular heresy on the planet, it's not like it's proven itself terribly successful ... (as evidenced its historical defeats, centuries of malaise and inability to summon on its own the "western energy that dethrones tyrants" in order to shake off the despots and enjoy the full promise of what just and true principles -- we share -- which are extant in Islam)."

Just the sort of thing that puts a smile on satin's face.

[Askel5]

What do you mean?

If we concentrated on what we had in common -- in the way of objective truth and the Tao -- it's quite likely they might understand the abject errors on which those who've co-opted them have capitalized.

I think it's extremely shortsighted to write off as abject evil the whole kit and caboodle.

I'm not one of those so deluded that I buy the traditional commie schtick that Christianity and communism are essentially similar. Quite the opposite.

It's just that it's only in starting from that sense of injustice or "hope" for perfection common to all human hearts that we expose the utopians and connivers and illuminate the substantive (albeit more humbling and difficult to accept) truths about our human nature and our lives together on this earth.