Religion in the 21st Century
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Polite people don’t talk about sex, politics, or religion. Well, this is my diary (modern word is blog) so I can talk about anything I want. If you don’t like reading it, just click on the X at the top right hand corner of your screen.
Just like most healthy people I like sex a lot. My academic degree from University is in political science. And lots of people are being killed each day because of religion.
In Europe the conservatives (both Christian and secular) are becoming worried about what they see as the Islamization of Europe. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,489257,00.html
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In America everything has changed since 911.
The radical fundamentalist adherents of the Muslim religion clearly want to destroy western civilization and return things to the way they think they were in the past. Maybe 500 to 800 years ago.
And the moderate Muslims are either happy to go along, or 
apathetic, or afraid of the radicals. Because you sure don’t hear much from them.
When you look at these Muslims, what went on in Jonestown, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the continuing decrease in rates of church attendance in both North America and Europe it makes one begin to question whether these two modern religions are in fact more of a negative influence on society than anything constructive.
From a historical perspective one could argue that the current conflict is only a continuation of the Crusades. A continuation of the attempt to get under control the more negative influences of the Muslim faith.
Pope Benedict has brought out a new 10 commandments for drivers, which I think is pretty good. At least he is trying to focus on the current era rather than trying to take us back to a mythical period hundreds of years ago.
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None of the above suggests that I think that God does not exist. But organized religions are looking more and more like heavily negative influences on society. Just look at those countries (like Turkey) where there is open debate between the secular people and the true believer religionists.
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