Reply #63: Islam is more intolerant,

[ozone_man]

still a medieval religion, but Europe has already had it's fill of medieval Christianity. I think even Islam will moderate, probably in 50 years, what it took Christianity 500 years to do, but maybe not without further bloodshed.

Along with the liberalization of Islam and further liberalization of Christianity, will come advanced education and prosperity, and with that, a lower birth rate, which can best be seen in prosperous countries like Japan, Sweden, Britain, France, Germany. The trick is to eventually float all boats, liberalize and educate the world, not to have an impoverished, uneducated, and religious underclass working for the secular upper class. The church with it's contraception policies promotes overpopulation, and perpetuates a vast underclass to work for the upper class, and keep the church in power at the same time. Religion feeds directly into capitalism. God and socialism don't agree with each other, which is a major reason why Europe is not very religious, or is it the other way around. Which is cause and which is effect? Maybe neither, but one can at least say that socialism is compatible with secularism, while capitalism is compatible with God. The latter relationship is especially pronounced in the U.S., being the most capitalist and the most religious nation in the developed world.