re: #246 Joe Bacon

Lots of people complain that religious fundamentalism is the real problem.

Religious fundamentalism only seems to be a problem now, because the Enlightenment came along and reined in the excesses of religious faith. Hanging witches, crusades, inquisitions, wholesale slaughter of people with slightly different religious views: Those weren’t fundamentalism. They were Christianity.

The only reason murdering an atheist or a Jew is not permitted now is because secularism was imposed and enforced on Christians.

The “fundamentalists” are the ones behaving the way the religion has always behaved. They want those restrictions of the Enlightenment gone. They want to impose the iron fist of their religion on all society again.

There’s a reason why when Christianity was in charge, we called it the Dark Ages.