There will be a Total World War between the Judo-Christian and Islam worlds within the century.

Thank you, Skeptic for accepting my open debate. I do not wish to pull my opponent into a semantics trap. I'm sorry for not explicitly saying that religion will cause WW3. I am predicting that it will. My opponent claims that because this is the twenty first century horrendous things like this can't happen because we have progressed. I agree we have seen progress in the Zeitgeist (spirit of the times) but decades of progress can be undone in just a few short years. This happened in Rwanda in 1994, in Germany during WW2, The Taliban in Afghanistan and many others. I must dispel two misconceptions about the zeitgeist. These two are: 1. The Zeitgeist is always gradual progress. 2. Moderates in religion pose no threat. >>> 1 <<< The zeitgeist moves in a precarious saw tooth. It moves toward progress shakily, but can all too easily slip back in a regression. With almost no notice a "good" modern society can slip into atrociousness, especially in times of crisis. People are all too eager to give up their rights, or their morals, if they think it will soon improve things for them. Look at Julius Caesar, Stalin, Mussolini, Castro, Pinochet, and many others. America and the whole democratic world are in a crisis. The recent recession is now starting to be considered a depression. Just like the Romans, the Chileans, the Italians, we look to Obama as a savior. This has historically led to dictatorship. I'm not saying Obama will become a dictator, and I'm aware of the checks and balances in government that Bush did his best to get rid of. All I'm saying is the prerequisites are there and we're heading toward some form of major conflict. >>> 2 <<< Religious "moderates" are a tide pool of potential evil. Just as most of the Germans in Germany were closet anti-Semitists but would never start a holocaust. However, add a fanatical leader into the mix and everyone turns a blind eye or even supports it. If the Crusades are any example, people will get worked up when they have a common enemy, no matter whether that enemy did anything to deserve the disgust. The simple fact that 80% of the U.S. is Christian and that we have always had a Christian president could contribute towards this war. We're already fighting a war on religion. We may like to call it the war on "terror" as if terror had a will of its own. We can employ all kinds of euphemisms like the potential for WMD's, but the simple fact is it's a war on religion. We don't need a whole horde of fanatics to make a religious war, we need one in power. Religious moderates will always produce some extremists, who somehow tend to get into leadership positions. Now I must point out that a lot can change in 91 years. I am aware that at the moment, we could massacre the Middle East. The U.S. has had a meteoric rise and it can have a meteoric fall. Indeed, we're already on our way. We could easily see, with no stretch of the imagination, how things could be different in twenty, forty, eighty years. Muslims already don't desire peace, as my opponent has conceded. This doesn't bode well, especially since some Muslims believe newer Koran verses trump older ones. Unfortunately, the peaceable verses in the Koran are all in the equivalent of our Old Testament. The newer verses are riddled with mentions of burning heretics, slashing them with swords, and that a martyr's death will send the person to a separate, better form of rapture. http://www.youtube.com... It is estimated that Muslims will be the majority in Spain in less than 25 years. The thing with democracy is, once this happens, Muslims will be in charge. They haven't historically been very nice to other religious groups and their culture alone will bring extremists to fruition. Now I must address the "will every country engage in this war" argument. There is absolutely no way of knowing. A lot can change in 91 years; maybe the U.S. will become predominately Islam. I believe restricting this potentially very interesting debate into a semantics battle will end any interest of readers and be counter-productive. I humbly ask that you can argue the main topics instead of going on a tangent.