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No Fun in Fundamentalism
September 16th, 2006 at 18:57
I’ve just got around to watching the last part of The Fundamentalists on Channel 4, that was on last Saturday (presented by Mark Dowd), and my god, some of the people on there certainly put the mental into Fundamentalism.
In the documentary, Dowd goes around the world and harassing religion nutters of all faiths, and then puts them on telly so that viewers like me can go “Christ, these people are insane!”, and then feel smug that my belief tag-team of science and rational thought is more correct than the people on screen, who are atleast ten metric Littlejohns more mad.
I think where fundies are going wrong is that they’re not looking at the full picture and sort of missing the point. To put this into a cake based analogy: yeah, eggs, butter and flour are alright on their own, but they’re much better if you were to apply hundreds of degrees of heat for a few minutes. Yeah, I’m essentially advocating that religious fundamentalists be burnt at the stake. Then iced.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t all arguing over a fantasy in the first place. Its all well and good having the Christians scream, “You’re wrong, because this book says this“, and then for the Muslims to shout back, “Yeah, well this book says that, and your mum sucks”. If History is anything to go by, the Christians will then respond with “your dad sucks”. Figuratively, I mean.
On a completely unrelated note, I was having an argument with someone the other day about whether Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter was more historically accurate.
Stupid Fundamentalists. Why can’t they just give up on their faith and live with the same apathy and disdain towards life as the rest of us?
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