Let's show a bit of maturity and tolerance!

What's wrong with this picture?

About the same thing that's wrong with the picture further down!

Both of these pictures take unnecessary cheap shots a people's religion and is a sign of disrespect for other people's beliefs.

Now don't get me wrong, I have run down religion quite a lot on this blog, but, it has always been about something that is wrong or perverted about a belief system, not the religion itself.

When people publish pictures like these it reduces us to the lowest common denominator. In other words, this sort of action is no better than the people they are trying to denigrate.

For example, I have made quite a few comments about Muslim Fundamentalists and Extremists and will continue to do so because I believe that these people are as misguided and delusional as some of the Christian Fundamentalists who infest North America.

There is no place for these "Children of God" in modern society and they have to be ostracized in one way or another, otherwise they will continue to infect others with their crazy ideas.

Muslim Extremists like Osama Bin Laden hate not only "Western" society, but all "Modern" society in general because they like things the way they were in the twelfth century and anyone who disagrees with them is an "infidel."

The same can be said for the Christian Extremists who are still fighting a war with Charles Darwin and Scientists in general because it doesn't conform with their interpretation of a two thousand year old document.

I really don't have any ideas about how to address and contain these wayward souls except by possibly trying to educate them. After all we can't just eradicate them because then we would be no better.

Until human society as a whole is more tolerant, and everyone has a chance to learn the reality of this world and not just the delusional rantings of a religious shaman I am afraid that we are going to continue to have a rough time of it!

(That is why documentaries like "The Day the Universe Changed" are so refreshing to watch because it reminds us that a lot of us are taking a reasoned and enlightened approach to the world in general!)

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com