Dear kaotic133, if you look at the certainly, the extremism is one of degree. But if you look at what's mainstream within the religions... you see that extremism, fascism and oppression is mainstream withing Islam. You asked where Jesus said that he hated gay people or advocated religious laws for the Roman Empire. He didn't, that's why Christian countries are the
only places where gays aren't persecuted, and where there is a seperation between what is God's and what is Caesar's. Muslims seem genuinely befuddled by the concept of a seperation of church and state. It is only Christianity that has implemented something like that.
I see it as a good thing, but some modern Christians see it as a political failure and would base their political choices on nothing but reversing that trend.
You're absolutely right about the real tolerence and openess of Christian societies, but in doing so you mask the popularly radicalized trend to stop that process from proceeding and perhaps reverse some of the secularization and religious-nuetral legislation.
