it is difficult to ignore the reality that christianity is a less extreme force for evil in this world than islam is, but that does not make christianity more moderate, and i would thoroughly reject that claim. there's plenty of victims of christianity out there. to the extent that christianity is less extreme than islam, it has little to do with their respective ideological frameworks, which are exactly the same thing, and more to do with differences in the underlying societies. white european culture experienced an enlightenment period that arab culture has not yet experienced and, for that reason, european culture has been able to extricate itself from the retarding influence of the religion and extirpate it from european society in ways that arab culture has to this point failed to succeed in accomplishing.
that is not a beneficial characteristic of christianity, it is a statement of the superiority of the underlying pagan european culture, that was able to throw off the yoke of jewish mythology and reconstitute itself, which is something that persians and others are still struggling with, in finding a pathway towards their eventual evolution out of islam.
as a cultural pagan or europeanist, i see christianity and islam as being identical to each other and equally threatening to the existence of freedom, free societies and democracy, which we can see from a broad view of history are indigenous ideas that, in eurasia, have only survived in northern europe. it would not take much for the tables to reverse.
i am not celebrating saturnalia this month, but if i were to celebrate anything, it would be the solstice, and the ways of the ancestors, and not christian mythology, which should be left behind.