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Thanks for the information.

I find it hard to believe this stuff personally, and find it hard to believe why any one else would.

I guess part of the reason is that we live in the "Post-Christian" world. The lack of clear moral guidelines - something most people find provides security and necessary stable base in life - has allowed other belief systems which provide a substitute for this to thrive.

Many people today claim to be Christians, but really aren't. They don't believe in the existence of Satan, angels and miracles, question the Resurrection and virgin birth, and have other reservations about Biblical scripture. Not to mention the rejection of traditional Judaeo-Christian morality which served as the moral mortar to keep western society together for so long. This is another reason why Islam, with its involved, but basially simple theology and apparent strict morality is so appealing to individuals.

Part of the blame in America is the fact that we have allowed God and Judaeo-Christian morality to be marginalized by a handfull of intolerant extremists, radical activist courts and pandering politicians. Another reason is the very structure of the Christian Churches themselves, particularly the non-fundamentalist Protestant Churches, which has increasingly lead their congregants to question tradional Judae-Christian morality about homosexuality, and other related moral and social issues.

This problem exists at an even greater level in Europe, which has provided even richer fodder for Islam than in the U.S. where a sizable fundamental Christian population still remains.

I think if the Christian Churches got out of secular politics and back to theological basics, and if the majority of people who still beleive in Judaeo-Christian values would simply demand of our politicians that a stop be made to these destructive actions of the state and federal courts, fringe groups like the scientologists and Muslims would have much less impact.