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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Lane3 who wrote (31404)10/9/2001 10:52:56 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Superb piece - well found, Karen.

I think that does touch upon a key of most religious fundamentalism - regression to the primitive (or the womb... hmmm). Maybe the unvoiced wish is to retreat to some idealised stone age, subsistence farming with surpluses. A time where the world was much simpler to cope in, where anything complicated or painful could be dismissed by the priests as "god's will", and you couldn't conceive of anything being otherwise, and nor could/would anyone else - maybe under pain of death.

- And where none of that nasty science or learning or logic could make the priests seem ill-educated, unintelligent or simply blind to reality...

not that those traits would ever be seen in religious fundamentalists now, perish the thought.
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