When will the Middle East become majority Atheist?

[Marsellus Wallace]

So you agree with me nonetheless about Islam.

You're building strawman after strawman. Obviously you think Islam is that much worse than christianity, which is absurd. The only difference between radical islam and radical christianity is that right now a thin layer of society and laws are preventing radicals to act on their impulses. Pastors calling for the death of gays and abortion doctors should give your the right idea. Also the repeated attempts to sneak outright bible motivated legislation into lawmaking is on the same level as calling for Sharia law.

Hold it right there, internet-correcting-police is here, fingers where I can see them.

[abaris]

Hold it right there, internet-correcting-police is here, fingers where I can see them.

And your point is ....?

[Marsellus Wallace]

Hold it right there, internet-correcting-police is here, fingers where I can see them.

And your point is ....?

this is my point ===========> .

JK

My point is gonna include an assumption, which is that you have no clue how much convincing and well written the quran is, and how brainwashing it is, just look at the ratio between christian:muslim terrorists.. The bible is poorly written by amateurs, that's why it was possible to make a skeptic layer between society/laws and christianity. but in Islam sharia law is one of the oldest things in Islam, its almost as old as the Quran, it's one of the main corners of Islam. I think that is one of the many reasons why in Islam you can't separate mosque and state like your version of separate church and state.

[Whateverist]

120 years.

[JuliaL]

When it is faintly warm glowing green glass.
I'm guessing 12 years so I'm 90% more optimistic than whateverist.

[abaris]

just look at the ratio between christian:muslim terrorists.

Right, and you don't think if social and political environments were reversed the ratio would reverse too?

That's what I call closing one's eyes to every hateful sermon, every attempted piece of legislation to make biblical law the law of the land.

[Thumpalumpacus]

By the way, are you an academic historian? Just curious.

I'm as much as an academic historian as Carl Sagan was. The answer is no, so to speak.

But what seperates me from Sagan is that I don't claim to be an authority regarding historical facts when I lack that formal education.

Except that he didn't claim to be an authority. And if you think a formal education is the only way to gain authority in a field, that could be argued as well. Perhaps deserving of its own thread.

If you have to compare Christianity to Islam in order to make Christianity look good, well, gosh, I'm underwhelmed.

So you agree with me nonetheless about Islam.

Currently. As noted above, Christian regimes in the past have been as thoroughly despicable. Reading in context would help the conversation along.

[I Am Not A Human Being]

[Mudhammam]

It's a bold question, I know. But let's talk long term; in 100 years time, or even 500 years, realistically, how Atheistic would the Middle-East be?

When will Antarctica be covered by beaches and palm trees?

[robvalue]

We might be talking about the Middle East of Mars by then.