Islam is however like most Abrahamic
religions extremely
violent in nature and to make matters
worse unlike Judaism or Christianity has not been pushed aside from the major public view by science and technology.
I think the problem lies more in the response to violence, and
violent people — with
religion, I think there's too much expectation that
religion will fix the
bad people.
4) Unable to accomplish 1, 2, or 3 atheists have no recourse but to cast
religion in the
worst possible light, i.e., emphasize and embellish the
violent parts of the Old Testament, ignore the overwhelming good in scripture, blame child abuse on the
religion itself instead of individuals, etc..