Fundamentalists often take the fun out of Religion <g> , such as this Mr Elect here , and by his displays of large and stubborn impediment to any real knowledge ...and it is much harder to think than it is to believe in reality, which is why there are so many believers in the world ....
( just as it is much harder to love real understanding
than it is easier to sow real hatred and prejudice.)
for mr. elect here, it is a badge of honor to raise hatred to higher plane and glean hate from those biblical passages and reward this attribute of them back to "God". That makes God & his love and plan much easier to manipulate and give the fundamentalist purpose.
It's been done many times as it is done again today , by fundamentalists that remain in the world .
The fundamentalist believes that he is right. Period.
He believes he knows the will of God. We've all seen that bumper sticker that says, "God said it. I believe it. That settles it." Of course the fallacy is that there's no proof, or even reliable evidence, that God ever said anything...and if he did say things thru his prophets , mesiahs or buddhas , they all kept it fairly simple and all agreed it would take sacrifice and effort.
When someone takes such a doctrinaire approach to religion, without being willing to accept that he may be wrong, it becomes very easy to believe that he knows what's right for everyone else as well.
When he believes that he knows what is best for everyone else, it is a very short leap to the feeling that he has the right, if not the responsibility to impose on others the point of view he is so sure is not only correct, but even infallible. After all it is for their own good, is it not?
Thus the fundamentalist has, by his conviction that he is correct, justified the extinction, by force if neccessary, of opposing points of view.
Does God really need the fundamentalist's efforts?
To make the claim that God needs one's efforts is a flat-out denial of the power of God. Claiming that God is omnipotent and omniscient is to imply that nothing happens in the universe that isn't happening with the knowledge and consent of God. How could it happen without the knowledge of God? It has to be that way if you accept the omniscience of God. If God doesn't allow it, how can it happen? Otherwise, God would not be omnipotent. If God allows it, it implies at least knowledge and consent.
The greatest philosophical problem of fundamentalism is that it denies the power of God. Love could very well be the answer, if one applies occam's razor to the argument in describing the true complete nature of God , and words of the masters .... Love/compassion are the most difficult of all things for us to master , and are the least complicated of the universal ideals to imagine and make the least amount of false assumptions that most fundamentalists have made over and over again ...whether they fight for the crescent moon , or the christian rose or the hindu/buddhist lotus flowers.
yet it's hard to forget that :
Gott Mit Uns (God is with us)
( was proclaimed on every Nazi SS storm trooper's belt buckle...a form of fundamentalism that came close to supremacy)
and god was also with us when slavery was practiced over and over again for centuries beyond into the discovery and subsequent settling of the americas...in the name of ,
and by the God fearing.
regards
mars |
