On the American site it's not (only) Christian fundamentalists, even though they make up a big part, but patriots.
At least compared to the Middle East America is a very secular country. Those people who are afraid of Sharia-law are not all Christians, many of them are atheists (or agnostics) who fear for "the American way", as you can see in this forum.
As far as I can see Hugh and Macmaline are not Christians and still they are the loudest, when it comes to fighting against this imagined threat.
When you would have made a poll among American soldiers in Iraq, what do you think, how many would have said that they are there to defend Christianity and how many because they consider it their patriotic duty?
I think the patriots would be at least 98%, even though some of them might also be Christians.

This is in my opinion true for all the war in world history, maybe with the exception of the crusades, even though financial and nationalistic motivations were probably at least as much of a motivation for the soldiers as religion was.

Therefore I think that patriotism is much more evil than religion, because without support from patriots religious wars would never be fought.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 09/09/2010 09:03:29 AM EST

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