a point of clarification

yesterday i ranted a little about religion, well, not so much about religion, but about extremists. i wanted to just clarify-for myself and for the record what i mean.

i was thinking about it, and my viewpoint is thus: i view the fundamentalist/evangelical movements as the christian equivilent to al-quaida. i'm not saying that the southern baptist convention is going to start sending suicide bombers into abortion clinics and gay bars (though i'm not sure it isn't because they havent thought of it yet). what i'm saying is that the evangelicals are politicizing religion. granted, guys who shoot up abortion clinics and assassinate the doctors are the christian equivalent of your garden variety suicide bomber.

at the end of the day, fundamentalist muslims and evangelical christians both lack a basic understanding of the logic behind a separtion of church and state. both parties are guilty of trying to create theocracies in support of their gods.

i guess that i, like many americans are guiilty of being suspect of Islam as a religion, but since i don't believe that there are really more than a handful of true christians in the world, then i suppose it is logical to hope that there are more than a handful of muslims that want nothing more than to have peace with their god and let you have your own.

i'm not sure if there is a point to any of this, but i needed to get the thought out, at least.