Where have i ever said that. I've thought Western Jurisprudence and Western national economic principles, when they were allowed to operate, worked humanely and effectively.
My point is you cannot overestimate the effect of religious sentiments on social mores and institutions. It is at their origins, and they conform themselves to its principles. You might think they are irrelevant, or that we've 'evolved' past them, but that's not what history tells us.
Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, published in the early 20th Century predicted much of what we are seeing now, as we become a 'post religious' society. Where it is tolerated, and considered somewhat quaint and a placebo for social peace, but with out any substance. Certainly without the clout to usurp the cult of secular reason, that governs us.
In fact societies where this has become the prevailing ethos, as our's has, have lost their civilizing impulse, and laid themselves open for conquest by vibrant cultures in the full flower their religious confidence and messianic zeal.
But you are right, my posts do have a chauvinistic element. I do not want to become a Muslim. I have no real interest in it, and frankly consider Islam an inversion of the intellectual and social tradition of Christianity, in its real form.
I'm not presenting any arbitrary solutions, but i know unless Christian culture regenerates itself in vital and authentic new forms, Islam will crash over us, and cast us aside.
