Many people, doubtless more subtle and insightful than myself, have burned out many a brain cell trying to solve or at least mitigate a particularly dire threat to mankind, if not all life on earth.  The Founders of the US with their enlightenment-era deism gave it a good go, but here we are just over 200 years later and their bold dream of a secular state seems poised to collapse around our ears.  The major miscreants, of course, seem to be the monotheist desert sky-god religions.  Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, collectively, have been responsible for 99.999% of all the assholery in human history.  Doing away with these loathsome institutions (without totally rejecting the comparatively few good things they've accomplished) would almost instantly rid the earth of a far more virulent plague than AIDS, smallpox, tuberculosis, polio, scrofula, and 'Reality Television' combined.  Sure, there would still be a few lingering 'booga-booga' traditions, but from an historical perspective, the others are mostly harmless.

So, what's one thing they all have in common?  They all hold Jerusalem sacred - to the point that they've fought over it for centuries.  The Jews think they have a claim to it based on some mouldering, millenia-old scrolls, coupled with the historically recent invention of Zionist bullshit.  The Christians think they have a claim to it, as evidenced by Pope after Pope sending armored sword-swingers to 'reclaim' it throughout the middle ages.  Even now fundamentalists march in the streets there, egging the Jews on in their endless, Nazi-esque genocidal conflict, hoping to hasten armageddon.  The Islamic world, despite not having much holy writ to back it up, seem to be rather taken with it as well.  Jerusalem is like a cheap whore, forced to submissively fellate the 'big three' religions in turn whenever any of them gets the upper hand.

I think that many secular thinkers have either been complete pussies, or else wanted to avoid the appearance of bloodthirst that their less 'reality-based' counterparts on the god-squad project.  Thankfully, I'm not so squeamish.  I think the solution is obvious.

NUKE JERUSALEM.

There's no need for loss of life.  The city could be given fair warning.  I'm sure a certain population of hard-core fanatics would insist on remaining in some sort of lame effort to prevent the inevitable.  Tough titty.  Those are the sort of irrational imbeciles that are causing the difficulty in the first place.

Most normal Jews would likely continue on about their daily lives, perhaps upset, but otherwise unaffected.  Zionists would be royally pissed, but once again - who cares what nutjobs think?  Christians would be either incensed or relieved, depending on which particular flavor of psychosis drips from their inflamed rectums.  They should all be relieved, actually, since this means that their precious final battle will have finally happened, although it won't have gone quite they way they'd hoped.  And Muslims?  Who knows?  I've long ago given up trying to predict how they'll react to anything.  I'm sure they'd declare yet another fucking Jihad to smite the infidels and blah, blah, blah fucking-blah-I-can't-talk-now-because-I'm-blowing-mohammed.

It would be a pity to toss away all the archaeology that's likely still waiting to be done in the region.  Still, I think the benefits would far outweigh the drawbacks.  In one swell foop, three of the worlds most notorious and potent forces for evil would be mortally dismembered, hopefully leaving the portion of the human population who aren't assholes to live their lives in relative peace and relaxation.

So I'll make you a deal.  First one to nuke Jerusalem - I'll buy you a beer.