What is the author's opinion on religions and what position does he/she take on Christianity and its ideals?
Ludicrous.
  Religions are the most divisive ideas and practices, the cause of delusions, war and suffering.
    Egypt is a Muslim nation of  90 million impoverished people essentially at the mercy of pseudo-Christian United States, ruled with an iron fist by a US puppet torture military dictator.
  If that isn't something to fight against, I don't know what is.
The "spirituality" of Christianity is an acquired taste to which the vast majority of the world has no attraction.
 The world desperately needs a spiritual revival to rejuvenate the reality of shared common humanity. But religions are not doing it for us.
   In the 1960's and 70's the hippies had an amazing kind of spirituality - a generous spirit of love for humanity, inclusiveness, and peace based on social democracy.
  That spirit still lives in the Scandinavian nations.
  No nation better embodies the ideals of Christianity; certainly not the US which says they believe in the 10 Commandments but lives by the 10 Delusions.