Christian fundamentalism and it's similarities to fundamentalist Islam
I found this article on the Third World Traveler website. Called God's Warrior Twins, the author of this piece, Kimberly Blaker, discusses how the religious right of the United States is using the rise of fundamentalist Islam to justify their subjugation of the basic rights of the American citizen while trying to their own version of a state religion.
If you look at how women and children are treated in both societies, more similarities than differences will be found. Both societies are highly patriarchial and lend themselves to the systematic victimization of women. Under the rule of the Taliban, women could be beaten for something as simple as not wearing their burkas in public or wearing white socks. Honor killings by family members were not uncommon in Taliban society. Young boys as young as six years old were taken from their families and sent to religious schools called madrasah, where all they learned for three years was the Koran.
As for women in fundamentalist Christian families, until recently, they were required to follow a rather strict dress code which often made them uncomfortable. Abuse is more often than not pardoned and dismissed by the clergy when they ask for help from their clergymen. Often, women in fundamentalist Christian homes are not allowed to work outside the house. Christian fundamentalism is often more a predictor of possible child abuse than any other factor. Yes, the idea is to literally beat the Hell out of the children.
Fundamentalists, both Christian and Islamic, are trying to subvert the very core of what it means to be an American. Our country was founded on the ideals of religious freedom for all our people, contrary to popular belief, not on the principles of Judeo-Christian law. Thankfully, the most hypocritical, so-called Christian will soon be out of office. That would be POTUS, the President of the United States himself.
Our founding fathers were Freemasons who saw what state religions were doing to the continent of Europe and designed into the very Constitution of the United States the separation of the church and state, and that is how things should stay. If the fundamentalists have their way, that will not happen and the U.S. will slip into the Dark Ages while the rest of the world moves on.
Labels: christian fundamentalism, church and state separation, Islamic fundamentalistism
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