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paper...using extreme examples, that are unrepresntative of the whole, is an example of a generalization.
Frankly, you're going to put religion at a disadvantage because it has history. If we judged political systems, say democracy by their original incarnations: Male, property owner led near oligarchies in hellenistic city states, it wouldn't paint a very rosy pictures. Or, you could find current examples that weren't doing so well-such as the challenged democracy of indonesia. But what you would be ignoring is the sucesses and counter examples to those instances that you raised. Over-selectivity is a logical fallacy. Mmkay?
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