I agree. I think people forget the first terrorist threat to America was the Klu Klux Klan and that was Christian based. I think the one upside though in modern America is that we have done a better job of keeping are radical nutjobs in check since the 60's plus the Bible had it's reboot that made God into less of a asshole, though I see that kind of being reversed with the Alt right.
I'm not sure if in some Muslim based countries they ever had any major reform to how they aproach the Koran. When do they get their reboot and hippie movement to start changing things. Maybe it will happen once America stops trying to control everything through bombs and siding with one crazed nutjob group who is the "moderate" over a equally crazed group.
Maybe instead of bringing war we could instead bring food,books and wi-fi to these countries so they can see that the world can be a better place.
Jason
The first terrorist threat to America was George Washington. #FightMe
Seriously, though, Islam was the height of civilization a thousand years ago: Science, art, literature, mathematics, you can thank them for preserving and continuing these things, which occurred before they had their own Dark Ages, which we are now experiencing. I do have hope, however, that thanks to modern communication networks and the spread of information around the world, Islam will likely soon face its own renaissance as practitioners grow tired of the tightened grip of theocracy, just as the subjects of the Christian church felt it 400 years ago, and began to rebel, to fight for a refinement of what it meant to be human, to be a living, thinking being.
Culture, any culture, waxes and wanes over time. We're experiencing a waning culture, with Christianity at the helm, and prepared to drive the ship onto the rocks as opposed to handing it over to someone better suited to navigate these new waters. That said, the U.S. has never really kept anything in check. We've watched people die, we've mourned and said "how could this happen? We have to do something," at which point we make a token gesture, if that, and returned to our previous course. It has happened that way every single time, whether it was church-goers, senior citizens, children, we've done it over and over again. We've become comfortable with this routine of saying without doing, and it's coming to a head with the younger generation, who looks around and sees all of this ridiculousness. Fundamentalist Christianity is growing, as other aspects of Christianity slump, and lose members. At the same time, the younger generations are more and more likely to adhere to either a personal non-religious faith, or are agnostics and atheists. So I have hope for that future.
