Religious Fundamentalism
Today's A to Z Challenge post brought to you by the letter... PLAYING GOD AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF FUNDAMENTALISM originally appeared on Andrew Leon’s Strange Pegs and was reposted here with permission. Go visit Andrew’s blog for more astute analysis. Let's have a bit of a thought experiment, shall we? If you espouse at all to Judeo-Christian mythology (because that is the correct term to use in this case, so don't go getting your undies all twisted in a knot and stuck in your bunghole) and, actually, to Islam, since it has the same roots, then there is a basic premise you have to acknowledge. Actually, it is the basic premise, the one without which there is no Judeo-Christian mythology, no Judaism, no Islam. That premise? Free will. Yes, the basis of Christianity is the idea that God gave us choice. This is the fundamental concept of Christianity: God made man so that man could choose to love Him. Or not. Love has no meaning without the pow...