Religion is despicable. And then murders happen. I don’t believe any “science fiction” from 2000 years ago. Astrology is science fiction. A burning bush is science fiction. Prophecies from an invisible voice is science fiction. I don’t believe in any set of rules made thousands of years ago that dictate clothes to wear or punishments for random crimes. And you know what: most people don’t believe in those things either. But I also don’t like when media takes a billion people and just blindly calls them terrorists for the sake of selling as many commercials as possible. And every academic can quote passages from every religion about violence and horror. The Bhavagad Gita, for instance, is Krishna’s argument about why Arjuna needs to go into war with, and potentially kill, his own cousins. Should a modern person take this seriously? Of course not! Islam is similar. Do I listen to everything a mysterious voice said to a man in the desert over a thousand years ago? Of course not! I don’t b...