Lawful Religionism

Submitted by MAC (United States), Dec 26, 2006 at 15:12

How does lawful Islamism differ from or more insidious to other religions (I can think of many) that may promote procreation to the extreme, conduct missions to proselytize and convert, and broadcast subliminal, low level and express messages and tones aimed at altering views to conform with their own. It is Tribalism coupled with expanionsism that is a root evil. Although benign, peaceful forms of this may slowly erode at a society's norms, violent forms such as Islamisism threaten to jam new and offensive societal norms down your throat.

Both are are bad to anyone not a devout believer promoting that brand of truth and behavior, but on a much differing scale. But I guess I fail to see why lawful Islamism may be so different from some of what I consider bad behaviors coming from other religions. True, it is bad, but perhaps not different than what otherwise permeates many religions of today.

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