tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post6221369173426919618..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Muslim or Christian Fundamentalist?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-7183399857857539392012-10-27T22:25:16.138-04:002012-10-27T22:25:16.138-04:00hmm, can i offer a different slant to part of this...hmm, can i offer a different slant to part of this, for consideration...?<br /><br />religious fundamentalists as a class extol the virtues of their belief system, whatever it happens to entail per their own practice. they are willing to defend it even with violence, and fastidiously cover their own tracks -- for a while anyway -- even when they push the "do as i say, not as i do" envelope a bit too far.<br /><br />you're spot-on in your assessment that religion is used as an implement of male power, and because it is, sexuality or reproduction in any sense is inevitably part of the equation. male authoritarian projection of a deep drive to control others is manifest in what they attribute to "god's will," from vanquishing enemies, to child capital punishment, to destroying whole cities of sexually 'deviant' people. it matters not whether these things actually happened: they serve to illustrate the code of behavior, and because the code is the, THE word of their god, that's somehow unquestionably true.<br /><br />closed-system thinking is not thinking at all. it's authoritarian manipulation to maintain the status quo, which is to say, maintain the power of those who are the 'rightful' heirs to that power.leifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097320643676830221noreply@blogger.com