Christianity as the new radical Islam > Tebow.

/got nothin'.

All religions have the potential to become fundamentalist. There are fundamentalists in almost every religion.

The Middle East has Islam. We have Christianity.
Now, not all Muslims are fundamentalists and neither are all Christians. Most people in either religion are not fundamentalists.

Though, depending upon where you are (Saudi Arabia, The Deep South in America), fundamentalism might be more concentrated.

Some are violent. Obviously those are the most visible. But most are not violent.
Most are normal people who just believe deeply on a fundamental level that they and their particular belief system are right and that others are wrong.

Hatred and fundamentalism are what we should fight in religion. It's what leads to religious wars, violence, intolerance and bigotry. We may not have many Christian terrorists here (though there are certainly some). But that doesn't mean we don't have hate-filled fundamentalists like Phelps or Pat Robertson or politicians like Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, or Michelle Bachmann who seek to gain more power and influence so that their bigotry becomes law.

The problem is not Christianity. Or Islam. It is the fundamentalism. The hatred, the bigotry. There are many loving, compassionate, tolerant people in these two, and in most, religions. The problem isn't either of these religions or religion in general.

The problem is the fundamentalism and it can be fought by promoting tolerance and compassion in religion. It can be fought by teaching love.

shivashakti: All religions have the potential to become fundamentalist. There are fundamentalists in almost every religion.

This, pretty much.

It's not the flavor of religion so much as the amount of fundamentalism in a given instance of it that determines the level of derp.

Go full on literalist, and the Abrahamic monotheisms start sharing a lot of characteristics.

Apart from them, there similar derp, slightly different but still out there.

itazurakko: Apart from them, there is similar derp, slightly different but still out there.

Christianity is the majority religion in the US so most people either belong to it in some way or at least know a lot of reasonable middle-of-the-road believers. So they know the true crazy is in the minority.

When other traditions tend to be shown only for the sensationalist crazy, people get a different view. On the the opposite side, there's traditions that only seem to ever be shown in really milquetoast versions, similar distorted view results.