Replacing Christianity with Islam

[Anomalocaris]

Theologically they're indistinguishable. Hitchens' observation, however, makes pedophilic priests the lesser of two evils because Islam is still 'young' and in the confident phase of its expansion, it hasn't had a few extra hundred years that Judaism and Xtianity to get jaded and mutate to the number of radical degrees they have.

Islam is hardly confident.  It is lashing out viciously precisely because of its profound sense of insecurity and powerlessness.

Its over the top behavior is partially attributable to its lack of long experience in developing more effective and subtle ways to keep its hold upon the weakwitted and the weak willed in the face of enlightenment, as Christianity has taken 500 years to do.  This seems to be attributable to the fact that Islam has never faced an strong autochthonous enlightenment embraced by the sustainably powerful with which it had to contend.  At any time it always seem easier to cast enlightenment as foreign or alien than to world with it or around it, even as it struggle with its own eroding power and influence and relegation to the uneducated and prospectless.

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This question was raised in another thread so I figured I'd start a poll so there wouldn't be any assumptions. This question is for atheists only.  


If you could, would you replace all of Christianity with Islam right now? 

No.

They are both inveterately hostile to meaningful human progress and human enlightenment.   But Islam would be the more vicious and blood thirsty enemy in the short run, even though I strongly suspect Christianity will be the more effective enemy in the long run.

Islam will unleash a holocaust upon modernity if given the power, but will probably be overthrown permanently at the end if it is tried. Christianity aims to merely unleash an endless series of pogroms upon evolving modernity, each not quite severe enough to result in such backlash as to result in its own permanent overthrow.