Both religions are ugly and filled with bronze age awfulness but if you're knowledgeable on one and not the other it's wise to stick with what you know. What's the alternative? Criticize something you barely understand that hasn't even had a tenth of the impact as other things have had on you? I think it makes plenty…

Quite the opposite, he’s trying not to make assumptions one way or the other. Which is definitely the best thing to do when it comes to subjects you aren’t familiar with.

No, the whole point is he isn’t trying to make assumptions one way or the other.

It’s the difference of him feeling like he has ample information on Christianity and a dearth of knowledge on Islam. It’s like if I knew nothing about Buddhism and decided to stick it in my band name in way that could be interpreted as negative. Personally I have no love for Christianity or Islam (the religions, not…