Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as thousands descend on Google HQ

[nadinbrzezinski]

75. All organized religions go through what I call the teenage years

the problem is that it will take a few more hundred years for Islam to get out of them and become a more mature, ok it is us, but there are others out there that do not necessarily believe like we do. For the record, if you read carefully in the tensions within Islam, yes I have, you will quickly notice that the discussion has started and that NOT ALL Muslims are intolerant. The Taliban are a particular breed of intolerance though, and I suspect is partially not the religion but the society. People want to think of Afghanistan and partially Pakistan as nation states... no, not really. And part of the conflicts are clan based... the SWAT valley is particularly bad, as it is a cross of three different clans.

Both Judaism, well before the Common era, and Christianity, went through the same crap, In fact, as far as Christianity is concerned, a few denominations are still in the teen age years... and if you do not think like us... (Yes Fundies I am looking at you, only reason why Fundie Jews are not there is the definite status of a minority within a minority)

You can say that for Eastern Religions as well.

What is driving fundies of all stripes crazy is this new upstart, and in their mind it is a religion... called Secularism and science. I mean the latter is really turning some believes upside down, even if cosmology has it's charm, that could even be called religious in some ways. I mean, what it is doing is exactly the same thing (in their minds), as religion, and that is the creation story, and creation myth.

Of course praying to the quanta to give you a shiny, well it will give you the shiny and not at the same time, and everything in between... and it cares two shits about you... hence the threat.