I'm anything but a fundamentalist myself, but I disagree that there is a parallel between Islamists and Christian fundamentalists. That is why we do not see Christians of any denomination flying planes into buildings, chanting from the New Testament while cutting off heads of live and conscious victims, blowing up thousands of fellow citizens in an effort to derail democracy, and so on.
Not that i haven't occasionally come across a Christian who, in the name of his faith, wouldn't want to see some kind of circumscribed democracy that is akin to a Christian theocracy. They, however, are very rare. The clear majority of evangelicals are like George Bush himself, a democrat to their very core.
I would agree that, in the last century, the Muslims extremists demonstrate a greater degree of extremism in their actualy behavior. It is the type of thinking that I was refering to as "dangerous".
Bush is a very good example of the kind of irrational thinking that is dangerous. We have some very difficult decisions to make over the next years and decades. To have any hope of making half way decent ones we need those making decisions to be able to incorporate facts (even if they are uncomfortable) and use reason and logic to come to conclusions (even if the conclusions are not welcome). This is the kind of thinking process that is discouraged by blind (willfully so) faith as a way of arriving at conclusions.
Christians as a whole have moved further from this kind of thinking in the last few centuries than Muslims have is something I would have to agree with (even if it sounds racist in some way).
However, that doesn't mean that the cults contained with in Christianity are not capable of retrogressing to a time when they could use violence to achieve the "work of God" is also my view.
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