The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has described a rise in "fundamentalism" as one of the great problems facing the world.
He focused on what he described as "atheistic fundamentalism".
He said it led to situations such as councils calling Christmas "Winterval", schools refusing to put on nativity plays and crosses removed from chapels.
In his Christmas message, he said: "Any kind of fundamentalism, be it Biblical, atheistic or Islamic, is dangerous."
The archbishop said "atheistic fundamentalism" was a new phenomenon.
He said it advocated that religion in general and Christianity in particular have no substance, and that some view the faith as "superstitious nonsense".
Well I agree with the Bishop that fundamentalism is dangerous in all of its forms. But he is way off in describing any kind of "atheistic fundamentalism". That is just another attempt to place a religious label on a group who does not believe in religion.
It is the same disingenuous approach that Creationists used in blurring the line between science and religion by saying that there were two types of "science". There are not.
Atheists do not believe in God. Any God.
Agnostics simply don't know what to believe.
And Fundamentalists are out of their ever loving minds.
Get it?
I enjoy your insights into religious matters Gryphen. Here's a quote from Ed Abbey for you:
ReplyDelete"Man will only be free when the last king is strangled by the entrails of the last priest".
It is simple. Fundamentalists don't change their opinion in the face of facts or evidence. Atheists think for themselves, so just because they don't change their opinion doesn't mean they're fundamentalists, but that there's simply no evidence for religion in general.
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