The Christianity Thread

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by mordwyr

Educated does not equal scholar. In my experience, the opposite is true.

As for me, I can coexist with Muslims. The colleague I get along best with and have the most meaningful interactions with is a Muslim.

But in the aggregate, it's not going to happen. The worldviews are too different, too extreme, to ever coexist. Coexistence can only happen if they become nominal religions.

As someone who isolates yourself from other people quite a bit, wouldn't you say that it's easy to coexist in a culture when nobody intrudes on your own? It's very easy, and if the existence of another religion or culture threatens your own, then it wasn't very sturdy to begin with.

There was an Islam that sprung up from a warzone (much like Muhammad was late in his life when he preached what would later become hadiths) that has some very extremist take on things as well, but we've seen that before in religions that by and large get on well with atheists and such these days. I'm more optimistic than you and along with that, I take my media with a whole pound of salt (not to say that you don't, but it kind of reads like that).