neoprobe, you have an interesting phenomenon. I can see the point where you coming from as I have lived a fairly similar life. Grew up in Iraq with a lot of muslim friends but I never was asked to practice any religion, My father is muslim by name and my mother is catholic. At a point of my life I realized the role of religion in this world and that's when I was shocked when I heard people associating terrorists to muslims and vice versa. Because I would remember my friends and how peaceful and open-minded they were yet they were muslims. I came to conclude that either way, religion that is based on scripture will always turn evil at some point. Moderation of Religion with scripture is the strain I fear the most because that generates the kind of people that take what they like from religion and leave or manipulate the rest to fit their own lives. And radicalism belongs to that group.

I came to realize that for myself, being non-religious makes life way easier for me to live and sort of cooperates along with my infinite-curiosity towards this world. I am by no means an oppressor or a repressor against any person out there as long as they didn't cause me harm. I feel that if religion was meant to be personal and kept that way we wouldn't have had a problem with it. But that's the main problem of religion. The fact that it promotes random acts of violence directed towards other people of other ethnicities makes it flawed. And in a big way.

-ShazaM