I agree with most of this. But, IMO the difference between man and other animals is that modern man takes everything he can get his hands on, and an animal takes what it needs. Hence animals can live in balance with nature, and modern man can only destroy it, as we can see.
My point in bringing up Christian extremism was not to debate the level of its extent, but to point out that extremism is possible and exists on both religious sides.
Furthermore, how can we even gage such an issue. We would at least need the same level of coverage towards Christian extremis as Islamic extremism. But, the media is in all likelihood mostly Christian, so I don’t really think such undertakings would be impartial.
I goggled for a bit and found the following, its subjective, but interesting, have a read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1873758,00.html
How about the BNP, is that not an extremist Christian group. They certainly aren’t Muslim or Jewish. Apparently they also encouraged the formation of the Christian Council of Britain. Go figure.
What if we take something like the government and its foreign policy. If we consider that most of the UK government is Christian, then I guess since foreign policy is geared against Muslims (as some may say) then it is in a sense Christian extremism. If we take someone like George Bush and his connection to religion i.e. “God told me to invade Iraq”, well that’s just scary.
In other words, you cant gage the level of extremism merely by finding preachers that preach extremism. People in powerful positions may hold extreme religious views and skew whatever policies in line with their views and we would know nothing about it. It certainly would not be surprising if this was the case, all we have to do is look at what’s happening in the middle east.