Archives: June 2007
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Sun Jun 17, 2007
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Sat Jun 09, 2007
Religious fundamentalism and kindred spirits
A brief observation about Mike Huckabee's comments at the GOP debates. He says:
We are a culture of life. We celebrate, we elevate life. And let me just say, when hikers on Mt. Hood get lost, we move heaven and Earth to go find them. When coal miners in West Virginia are trapped in a mine, we go after them because we celebrate life. This life issue is not insignificant. It's not small. It separates us from the Islamic fascists who would strap a bomb to the belly of their child and blow them up. We don't do that in this country.It is ironic that he says that, because it is in fact this religious fundamentalism that is his deepest connection to the Islamic fascists who hate our rational, secular society, and want to kill us.
His religious fundamentalism manifests itself in comparing a fetus to a living human being — a collection of cells to a stranded hiker — which can be justified on no scientific or rational grounds. It is this blind commitment to religious dogma that drives our enemies.
