Raw Fundamentalism

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" Every fundamentalist divides the world into two

camps, those who agree with him and like him and help him,

and those who don't. There is only one right way to

interpret the world—according to the ideas the

fundamentalist believes to be true—and a million wrong ways.

 

The fundamental attitude of all fundamentalists is to

take everything way too seriously and too personally

and too literally. Imagination is a sin and a crime.

Correct belief is the only virtue. Every fundamentalist

is committed to waging war against the imagination

unless the imagination is enslaved to his or her belief

system.

 

And here's the bad news: Like almost everyone in the

world, each of us has our own share of the

fundamentalist virus. It may not be as dangerous to the

collective welfare as, say, the fundamentalism of Islamic

terrorists or Christian politicians or CEOs who act as if

making a financial profit is the supreme good or

scientists who deny the existence of the 96 percent of

reality imperceptible to the five senses. Our

fundamentalism is not as virulent as theirs.

 

But still: We are infected, you and I, with

fundamentalism. What are we going to do about it?

 

I say we practice taking everything less seriously

and less personally and less literally. "

 

Fundamentalism begins with FUN; defuse it with that.

 

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individual into a personality of idealistic power. Religion ministers to

the progress of all through fostering the progress of each individual,

and the progress of each is augmented through the achievement of all.

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