TnT quotes someone else:
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"We in USA
deserved 9/11!"
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The original topic included mention of christian fundamentalists. it
might be useful to turn the focus back on CF's and, for that matter
jewish fundamentists, islamic fundamentalists (and fundamentalists of
all and sundry "isms"). they are all, quite simply put, nutbars.

ok, i've got the name-calling out of the way. let's examine the facts.
an islamic fundamentalist nutbar causes planes to be flown into
buildings. is it because he hates american freedoms? yea, likely that's
one of a myriad of reasons. that's fundamental to all fundamentalists:
they hate freedom. they want to squeeze everyone into the same damned
mold. their mold.

a christian fundamentalist nutbar then opines that the planes flying
into buildings can be accounted for by the wrasth of god. god
apparently is angry at people because they've refused to adhere to the
mold prescribed by CF nutbars.

islamic fundamentalists (IF) insist that women cover up in public. how
ansurd! CF's support the notion that a female breast on a super bowl
half-time show be pixelated. stupid!

IF's stone women who speak to males other than family members. how
right out of the dark ages. CF's make spectacles of themselves at the
funeral of a gay man who, obviously, had liaisons with other men. how
medieval! [and i haven't even mentioned the nature of the young man's
death -- too much like stoning from my perspective].

IFs don't permit girls to go to school. backward! CFs demand that very
ordinary books (but clearly ones that don't fit their mold) used as
part of very ordinary high school english literature curricula be
banned. very backward!

how long should i go on for? and i haven't even touched jewish, sihk,
hindu, etc fundamentalists. dangerous nutbars, all of them.

these are simple people who for some reason can't cope with modernity.
rather than reason out issues using the best information available at
any point in time, they prefer the ancient writings of who knows who.

these are simple people who cannot handle diversity, ambiguity, and the
give-and-take of modern life. and because they are simple people
(simpletons?) they resort to the means of simple people -- violence.
whether CF or IF, "spare the rod and spoil the child" seems to be the
operative paradigm. for these simple people, use of the rod seems to
be the only outlet when faced with phenomena outside their ken.

it is odd, imho, that CFs can't see how very taliban-like their dogma
is.

frtzw906