Reply To: London
Let’s face it; just about all of the world’s theocracies today are Islamic. A theocracy the polar opposite from the ideas of Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and the democratic republics that followed ideas of Locke, etc. It is the opposite of liberalism that some of us hold dear. Christianity on the other hand has lost it’s power to have nations rule under it’s devices. Christians are beyond that nonsense.
These Islamic nations have governments that are threatened by the freedoms of Western Society. These leaders want to stay in power. They sanction the violence, they use their believers as political weapons. Not to mention the oppression of most people that live in these countries, especially women, homosexuals or practitioners of other religions.
So, sure the book doesn’t matter, but one religion still has numerous followers who are willing and able to be used in the ultimate way.
