mcgees.org

…than other religions

Ever type a sentence fragment into a search engine to see what sort of sentences people are formulating? No, me neither, but looking for something specific I typed the phrase “than other religions” into Google. Of the first ten matches…

Two pages mention an ABC News poll reporting that 38% of Americans say Islam has more extremists than other religions.
A Pew Forum poll reported that “a plurality” of Americans believe that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions.
An article from the Jan-Feb 2002 issue of “Military Review”, a U.S. Army journal, discusses “the possibilities of U.S. forces being deployed as peacekeepers and nationbuilders in Muslim nations,” and states that “Unlike many other religions familiar to American non-Muslims, Islam inserts itself into the body politic far more aggressively than other religions.” The nationbuilders are also reminded that to “some Muslims … westernization and globalization are threats.” (The Army have since removed the page, but is still cached at Google.)
ReligiousTolerance.org explains that it covers “Christianity in greater detail than other religions” because in the U.S. and Canada it “outnumber[s] the next largest organized religions by about 40 to 1.”
Two quote Nietzche as saying that “Buddhism is hundred times more realistic than other religions.”
Cartoonist Tim Kreider explains that he mocks Christianity more often than other religions because he was brought up Christian and has personal resentments.
A Canadian page on Hereditary Witchcraft states that most of their rituals are “spontaneous and less structured than [those of] other religions.”
And as a final touch, ChristianAnswers.net, on its sure-to-be-objective “ANSWERS about RELIGIONS” page, asks if Christianity seems “to be supported by historical evidence more than other religions.” I’ll spoil the end for you: It does because “Christianity and history have always been allies,” explaining that “twentieth-century archaeology generally reinforces Biblical history, including the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch … and the historical background surrounding the virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, and physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.” (Note the weasel phrase “historical background surrounding.” I suppose what this means is that Caesar Augustus ruled around that time, that a place called Judea existed, and so forth. As for the idea Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, this is rejected by most Biblical scholars.)