Well, at least according to the front page of The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. Here is the the front cover verbatim:
"We in the West find
it incomprehensible that
the minds of men, stirring
up messianic passions that can
leave societies in ruin.
We had assumed that this was
no longer possible, that
human beings had learned
to separate religious questions
from political ones, that
political theology died in
16th-century Europe. We were
wrong. It's we who are the
fragile exception."
The writer's name is Mark Lilla, who then goes on a literary adventure and apologia in an endless amount of virtually unreadable philosophizing.
I just KNEW someone would come up with a rationale concluding the West and its various religions is wrong and the animals who practice that medieval excuse for a ethical philosophy were actually "okay dudes."
How silly of me to think otherwise.
When Islam, as an ostensible "religion," declares the excommunication of the troglodytes who purport to be worshippers of the great Allah, en masse, I'll stop calling them animals and lumping them all together. Until then ...
Charlatans, thieves, rapists and murderers. Now there's a 21st-century religion that's admirably relevant.
Nuke 'em all.
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