Distant planet judged possibly habitable

Rand Simberg wrote:

Sorry, by "both religions," I meant LDS and Islam, not "Heaven's
Gate." The latter is clearly unsuccessful, thankfully.


Anyone who would think that Islam isn't "successful", by the simple
matter of how many followers it has, and how far they are willing to go
in their zeal for their religious beliefs, hasn't been looking at the
history of around the past 30 years or so.
What is interesting is that the rise of Fundamentalist Islamic beliefs
is pretty much mirrored by the rise of Protestant Fundamentalist
beliefs in the same time frame.
Both Christianity and Islam (and Fundamentalist Judaism, for that
matter) are on their last breaths, due to the advance of humanist
thought. And a lot of the world who embraced their tenants is suddenly
having something very comforting pulled out of their hands, and from
under them, and will do just about anything to stop that from happening.
Luckily, this should all be behind us in, say, 100 years.
So, providing we can all get through this, the promise of The
Enlightenment might just occur on a global scale.
Don't look now, but the three "Children Of The Book" are about to toss
the book away.

Pat