[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
She’s nutty, sure. But so is every other believer.
The difference between your average Joe-Christian and this particular Jane-fundamentalist is that Jane is not a hypocrite. She takes a very strict, literal interpretation of the holy texts of her faith and doesn’t skip over the “bad” parts where people are stoned to death, maimed, tortured, etc, all in the name of God.
You can’t blame this woman without blaming her religion first. Religion is responsible for this type of bullshit worldwide.
In a sense, fundamentalists are less nutty and closer to the truth than moderates. I wrote about this a while ago on another forum. Some parts were written tongue-in-cheek.
[i]There’s nothing remarkable about that woman. She’s simply a religious loon who happens to take her poison seriously, as opposed to millions of other religious loons who pretend to do the same, but don’t. The real difference between fundamentalists like her and your common believer is that the former group does not consist of hypocrites: they follow literal, blood & guts interpretations of religious texts rather than the conventional, neutered versions. For this, they should be applauded. For there is nothing more idiotic than that practice of combining antagonistic ideas and blending them together to create a shit stew, of sorts, embodied in the intellectual doctrine of moderatism. It is the worst intellectual disease that one can acquire, being practically incurable.
All moderates should die. That way, the extremists would be left to off each other, and following that, there would be no more conflict.
The real joke is on the millions of idiots who look at people like her and shake their heads in disdain, yet profess devotion to the same, core ideology.
These pathetic simpletons try to hide their grotesque beliefs under a veil of lamb’s clothing, only to cower in fear when the veil is lifted and the monstrosity is revealed for what it truly is.
So, if you’re not an ardent atheist or a religious fundamentalist, you’re a bigger idiot than both…[/i][/quote]
Normal people don’t think of life in bipolar terms. But you are right, you are closer to this woman than us moderates.