Reply #32: Good post!

[smirkymonkey]

This really stood out for me as the heart of the matter.

"their only collective hope for survival is the destruction of progress."

What all fundamentalists have in common is an aversion to progress. This is not so much of a "clash of civilizations" as it is a war against progress and modernity. In my opinion, the Abrahamic religions no longer have a place in the modern world and we are seeing thier death throes. It make take hundreds of years, but eventually I think they will go the way of the Greco-Roman pantheons, the Druids, etc.

Yes there are still millions of adherents and believers, most of them kept that way out of ignorance. I believe that if we do not act now to stop the tide of rising religious fundamentalism, then human society had no chance.