Buying into these controversies is so fraught with difficulty given how massive the various sensitivities are, that the dangers are nearly too large even to wish to say anything at all. But saying nothing is the way of cowardice.

There is no religion that has never killed someone else because their religion was different and unacceptable, or because they wished to convert others to their own. But one of the great advances made in the West, and it is recent and it is even here still tentative, is that everyone’s religion is no one else’s business but their own with, however, this one additional provision: everyone must live their lives in conformity with the civil law of the nation they are in.

It is also the case that everyone else’s religion looks ridiculous to people who were not brought up within it. Each of us was fortunate to be born into the one true religion, but the people who ended up being born to the wrong parents with the wrong religion will have to wait until they have passed on into the next world to have their errant ways explained to them in the afterlife. In the meantime, it is the cause of the greatest imaginable destruction of civic peace for others to seek to convince us of the righteous path in any other way but through words and example.

There are now low IQ pathological nutters running loose who believe it is their religious duty to kill others on behalf of their own religion. It should not just be illegal to try to kill other people for their religion, it should be illegal to say it should be done or advocate such acts or in any way imply that it is a personal virtue to harm others of a different religion because of their belief in that religion. The potential for a year or two in jail would fit right in with the needs of the times in which we live.