jgoins: Kim has just made my point better than I could.

He viewed my comment as an "evil Christian diatribe" while completely missing the point that it wasn't about Muslims or Christians at all. My point was that people mindlessly fall into the simplistic rut of applying a label to what they don't understand because it's easy to fear something. Kim rhymes off everything he knows about Radical Muslims and applies it to the generic label Muslims, a religion that encompasses 1.6 Billion people in the world. If 23% of the world practiced what Kim believes the Muslim religion is believe me the world would be 1000x worse than it is. Just like if all Christians practiced radical Christianity, or any such religion for that matter.

Secondly, these "Muslim bans" targeted every country that hasn't attacked the US, while exempting those that did. (Egypt, Saudi, U.A.E, Turkey). Kim, if you think this was about your safety then do tell why all the proven risk countries got exceptions? It's about Trump looking good for his supporters but not risking any of his own or the US's business interests. If it was safety related he would have targeted the known risks... the ones that proved to be sources for the attacks you listed.

That said, I do STRONGLY agree that religion makes the world a mess on all levels. Full support there. But it seems to be somehow ingrained in our psyche to believe in such fallacies to give our lives meaning. My biggest hope for the future is that humanity will grow out of that dependency. Sadly won't be in my lifetime, or probably for many generations to come.