If someone identifies themselves as "Taliban," I feel safe in making certain assumptions about the implications of their Taliban-ness for women.
Do you know any fundamentalists -- let's use self-identified Christian fundamentalists for this example -- who would stand up for a woman's right to choose a first-trimester abortion? As in, vote against political candidates who promise to fight to overturn Roe v Wade, write to the President in opposition to the Global Gag Rule that will remove funding from poverty stricken countries for family planning, maternal/child care, medical attention for the victims of the (increased number of) botched abortions? Do you know more than one or two who would take the position that the public schools should not be vehicles for inculcating theism? Who don't believe that "there is a deity to whom they are very special and whose "will" they are positive they represent"? Who do not make clear that the idea of stipulating "reason" and "evidence" as requirements before one would accept a proposition about history or ontology is, to them, an inappropriate one, representing a sort of apples and oranges situation?
If you can cite to me a significant school of religious fundamentalists that doesn't take the positions I have observed (I made clear these were my personal observations), and any single Christian fundamentalist who has posted on SI who doesn't take these positions, I'd be very interested and encouraged to have that information.
I think there are certain things one isn't supposed to say, even if they're true. For example, that one of the attributes of religious fundamentalism is a conviction so deep that one is right right right, that the adherent of those beliefs feels comfortable doing a great many coercive things to others, some of which they know will cause terrible suffering. Which they think is a price worth paying to enforce a general adherence their beliefs.
What is incorrect here? Aside from politically? |
