True, you’d still have mentally unstable and violent criminals doing bad things but they would not be doing it because of atheism.

As someone smarter than me said about religion – “With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

Otherwise the only reason Jews and Christians went through an enlightenment is because of the abuse they endured under their leaders who did take their scriptures seriously a couple hundred years ago.

I always tell my Christian friends who worry too much about the apparent spread of atheism: You created atheism. Most atheists today come from Christian families. Atheism and by analogy enlightenment are both direct products of the mess their religion originally brought.

As science developed, Christianity and Judaism started making no sense whatsoever. Islamic scriptures on the other hand start making more sense to Muslims. This is the reason Muslims at their time embraced and progressed science at a pace not seen in Christendom. (As you are probably aware, Christians were busy fighting scientists at that time).

Muslims on the other hand ‘wish to go back to barbaric times’, because for them those times were beautiful. (That can’t be said about when Christians / Jews were in power). Muslims have been suffering ever since the other ‘great’ religions became enlightened.

If all they see is enlightened nations constantly attacking them, why would they ever wish for enlightenment? Except those among them fed the same lies you grow up with. Lies that portray capitalism as morally superior form of life than religion based governance simply because there is an illusion of control when corporations are deities.

Drugs, Alcohol and the unfair distribution of wealth have together killed more people than all the wars ever fought in the name of religion since recorded history.

If you take alcohol alone, it has killed more people than terrorism or ‘Shariah’ law ever did in any Muslim country since the birth of Islam. Suicide rate just in the Afghan war (among the enlightened troops) was much higher than the actual body count due to the violence of the Shariah-mongers.

What incentive do Muslims have to want your version of evil and consider it any less violent than theirs. The only reason left is, because you said so.

All religions are stupid.

“Non-state actor” please. And let’s dalos forget the US legislative branch has very rarely declared war on a nation, group, or individuals. Which makes the executive branch’s military operations illegal. I’m not even going to get into US covert operations, since everyone involved has “plausible deniability” (legal ignorance and lack of care and due diligence duties) built into their roles.