"But simply lambasting religion for an outdated cultural sham"... wow. Bringing religion into any conversation or a blog ends up in absurdities very fast.

it's kind of sad actually that even these days there's so much discussion over this massive religion that ruled the western world. check out other religions too... they're as (un)interesting. And some of them even don't instpire violence. This christianity thing gets kind of tiresome after hundreds of years