It's simple. We have two instincts from nature. one for the usual 'red of tooth and claw" blind competition from nature and the cooperation we needed when we left the trees that caused the rapid development of brain size. Those are survival strategies, moral instincts. They each have corresponding learned moral systems to go with them. Christianity has beliefs that correspond to cooperation (can be win-win). Islam, created by a warrior, corresponds to the blind competition (win-lose).

Human development for the last 10,000 years or so has been to develop a social and resource system called civilization. It is a new human ecology in those terms. Civilization is a created ecology doesn't exist in nature and that must be built, so is susceptible to damage, especially violence like competitive instincts lead to.

Islam has trouble supporting a civilization because war is part of it culturally, The cooperative nature of Christianity, that specifically says to avoid violence, can support a more complicated civilization by its reduction in violence. Islam can support feudalism because it is fundamentally based on force.

Another issue is that humans are still in a transition between ecologies and Islam, based on scripture is not supposed to change. The leadership enforces that, as shown by its theocratic nature. Again, it supports a feudalism, but not somehting more complicated.

That is why Dawkins and other Westerners tend to prefer Christian culture over Islam because it is inherently more cooperative. Just think reasonable, get over your emotions, get over God and think of Jesus as a philosopher. One of the greatest in history. Stoicism and Buddhism taught how to deal with war. The brilliance of Christianity teaches how to avoid it.

There's so much more to it, but that's enough.

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