Reply #14: Ah, but I have studied religion. [View All]

Fundamentalist Christianity does not value scholarship and critical thinking. Its doctrine teaches the infallibility and literal truth of the Bible. Anything that does not agree with that is not true, in fundamentalist philosophy. Christianity is not a single religion, by any means. The thousands of denominations and sects of Christianity run the gamut of beliefs.

Islam has produced many fine scholars. It too has fundamentalist sects which decry scholarship and critical thinking, and believe in the infallibility and literal truth of the Quran. They are very, very similar in the way they interpret Islam to the way fundamentalist Christians interpret Christianity.

I am discussing only fundamentalists of both religions, not the more rational believers.