Honestly, Islam is shaping up to be the one religion in the world. All of the other major religions -- Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, various taosims -- all have abandoned a doctrinaire approach for a wishy-washy "whatever you want" approach which invariably leads to ambivalence and agnosticism. The last hope for Christianity was a muscular Catholic doctrine, but the current shit-pope is destroying Catholicism for Catholics in the hope of pulling in a few non-Christians.
I am slowly retracting from my Catholicism and Christianity of my youth towards a form of ambivalent agnosticism, but if I hungered for a muscular approach to religion, the world's religions have left me but a single choice: Islam.
kind of agree with AJ here, suprisingly. religion in general needs to be left in the dust and quick. if the common man wises up and, and only muslims fanatics remain, its much easier to outcast them, expose them, single them out, etc. But, as it stands now, its pretty hard to condemn one group, and the next your talking about noahs ark being real, lol. it takes the legitimacy of your complaints and throws them out the window. once we can get past this my sky man religion is better than your sky man religion, then the sooner the loons can be legimately isolated and contained. this my friends will never happen, but its a nice thought.
how any american or any countryman with a college education can be christian, muslim, jewish, etc. blows my fucking mind. sure, keep your family traditions like hannakuah or christmas for family time and all that, but people need to get a fucking grip. modern world is wayyy too advanced for this shit, its embarrasing.
shit as i near mid 30s, its almost impossible to make friends as i dont go to church and everyone i meet starts talking about their "prayers" after the third time hanging with them. i wanna be like "ok, dude, sorry, dont call me again"