(November 22, 2015 at 9:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Thump, I did not mean to talk down to you, friend. There were a couple other people here insisting that Christianity and Islam are the same, and acting as though one thing that works for one will work for the other. My comment to your post asking why some structured order and a "pope" weren't needed for protestants to evolve out of the barbaric middle age phase, was more meant to be a general comment addressing some of the things others here have said. My apologies.
Fair enough; I'm sorry for taking umbrage.
I think much more important than a structured hierarchy in defanging militant Islam is the creation and thriving of solid civil institutions. After all, a Muslim "pope" would be able to declare jihad from centralized, organized power.
What is needed is the elevation of secular over religious authority, doubtful though such an outcome might seem.
