[VA Advogado]

Because they are fundamentalist fanatics. Weird blue nosed people.

What is it about God that scares you?

[tpaine]

"Because they are fundamentalist fanatics. Weird blue nosed people." - tpaine


What is it about God that scares you? VA
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I'm not scared, you fundamentalists are:
--- See my thread on Fundamentalism.

Fundies are frightened people, & not necessarily 'religious'. They are fanatics.

Arthur Koestler on fanaticism:

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.
We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.