What is it about fundamentalist extremist Christian sects that makes them so defiant of medical orders and common sense?
It isn’t biblical. Although these groups invariably say the Bible is the word of God that must be obeyed somehow they never seem to actually do that. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow."
Yet they always insist that they do these things for religious purposes based on the Bible, which they ignore.
I see why radical fundamentalist evangelical atheists think all religion must be bad when faced with these extremists, but then again that particular group should look in the mirror and realize that they are just as mindless.
Emotionalism, a dependence upon reactions based upon your feelings rather than facts and the application of the higher functions of your brain, has had a devastating negative impact on humanity for as long as there have been humans.
Which makes me feel very depressed, emotionally.
Do you think it's sufficient to lump them and radical fundamentalists into "anti-modernists?"
ReplyDeleteAre Christian fundamentalists really distinguishable from, say, Wahhabists in their posture against liberal democracy governed by a centralized state?