On Religious Fundamentalism

G Willow Wilson gives one of the best commentaries that I have read on the problem with religious fundamentalism.

Modern fundamentalism is not an obsession with God, it is an obsession with law. Religion in the eyes of most fundamentalists is a normative, enforceable moral code, not the society of God on earth. Personal spiritual experience suggests a direct connection with the divine, one not subject to the oversight of self-appointed moral guardians. Fundamentalists would love to live in a world where miracles occur only to the stuffily pious, and not to malcontents like me.

1 Response to “On Religious Fundamentalism”


  1. 1 Sumera October 21, 2008 at 6:07 am

    She’s got a point.


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