…than other religions

Ever type a sentence fragment into a search engine to see what sort of sentences people are formulating?  No, me neither, but looking for something specific I typed the phrase “than other religions” into Google.  Of the first ten matches…

• Two pages mention an ABC News poll reporting that 38% of Americans say Islam has more extremists than other religions.
• A Pew Forum poll reported that “a plurality” of Americans believe that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions.
• An article from the Jan-Feb 2002 issue of “Military Review”, a U.S. Army journal, discusses “the possibilities of U.S. forces being deployed as peacekeepers and nationbuilders in Muslim nations,” and states that “Unlike many other religions familiar to American non-Muslims, Islam inserts itself into the body politic far more aggressively than other religions.”  The nationbuilders are also reminded that to “some Muslims … westernization and globalization are threats.”  (The Army have since removed the page, but is still cached at Google.)

• ReligiousTolerance.org explains that it covers “Christianity in greater detail than other religions” because in the U.S. and Canada it “outnumber[s] the next largest organized religions by about 40 to 1.”

• Two quote Nietzche as saying that “Buddhism is hundred times more realistic than other religions.”

• Cartoonist Tim Kreider explains that he mocks Christianity more often than other religions because he was brought up Christian and has personal resentments.

• A Canadian page on Hereditary Witchcraft states that most of their rituals are “spontaneous and less structured than [those of] other religions.”
• And as a final touch, ChristianAnswers.net, on its sure-to-be-objective “ANSWERS about RELIGIONS” page, asks if Christianity seems “to be supported by historical evidence more than other religions.”  I’ll spoil the end for you: It does because “Christianity and history have always been allies,” explaining that “twentieth-century archaeology generally reinforces Biblical history, including the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch … and the historical background surrounding the virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, and physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.”  (Note the weasel phrase “historical background surrounding.”  I suppose what this means is that Caesar Augustus ruled around that time, that a place called Judea existed, and so forth.  As for the idea Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, this is rejected by most Biblical scholars.)