You can't reach middle ground if you have religious fanatics who feel righteous above everybody else and keep pushing their values unto all. This is valid in an

You can't reach middle ground if you have religious fanatics who feel righteous above everybody else and keep pushing their values unto all. This is valid in any religion, and can be currently seen causing havoc among christians and muslims alike. They can shield themselves by extremist interpretations of 'word of god' (which takes some mental gymnastics since his are, if at all, only 10 commandments and thats it, rest is just human-made stories). Funnily most of those folks fail with following even those 10 basic rules, but thats another topic. We went through this decades ago in Europe and largely emerged as better, more democratic and freer societies. Those times are regarded as dark primitive times when looking back, when a lot of trauma was done and a lot of regretful actions happened.