Christian Fundamentalism

Christian fundamentalism, is really no different to any form of fundamentalism. All fundamentalism really means is 'absolute truth' of one's position, whether that position is supported by evidence or not. Fundamentalism is the equivalence of literalism, one is a fundamentalist, because they hold a literal interpretation on any given issue and that literal interpretation, can and often does trump any external evidence, that could counter such a position.

Fundamentalism and particularly religious fundamentalism, is never rational. Such thinking, is stultifying to new knowledge and traps one inside borders of erroneous ideas. For example in the Dark Ages, individuals were trapped in a fundamental religious belief, the belief of geocentricism ...That the Earth was geographically centric or central in the cosmos. Such stultification, stops or halts forward thinking and often leads to years of static dogma, where progress comes to a halt and even regresses.

There have been many parasitical elites, throughout history, who have consciously and deliberately exploited the fundamental position and allowed it, to deliberately take root. It is often convenient to control the masses, by keeping them 'eyes wide shut' in a 'sea of dense fog'. The master priests of the Dark Ages, truly were masters at keeping the mass populous, in ignorance and thus leaving them malleable and pliable to the dictates of the Church.

The Dark Age priests of the Church had one particularly powerful weapon to control the masses. That weapon was the tool of guilt. If an individual can be made to feel guilty, then that same individual can be manipulated through guilt. What better tools, has ever been invented, to manipulate and control the masses than guilt, directed through the edicts and protocols of religion.

Such religious manipulation, relies heavily on non-thinking, once individuals start to think for themselves, they 'break-out-of-the-box' that allows the manipulation to take place. The most powerful tools in the armory of the Church leaders, in the Dark Ages, were the concepts of Heaven & hell and the manipulation of guilt. If you can instill fears of Hell and rewards of Heaven into the masses through manipulation of guilt, then you have them. But if they see through the lie, then the Church masters lose their power-grip.

Thus, fundamentalism comes into play and the Dark Ages was a time when the leaders of the Church, needed to hold belief, within the minds of the masses, by keeping them held within an Up and Down, Heaven and Hell, geocentric world-view. As long as the Church leaders were able to stultify knowledge, through fundamental religious indoctrination, then they could keep the 'dirty-game' going.

The heliocentric view of the universe (literally meaning, sun at the center), was not unknown to the parasitical elite of the Dark Ages. But, such a view was not in their best interests. There was good pay-off for manipulating the masses, through 'guilt-trips' and threats of burning in Hell for eternity. Copernicus made the first formal identification of heliocentricity and Galileo following him, 'nailed-it-down'. Both men were persecuted by the Church, for trying to take the 'lid of the jar' of geocentricism, the very foundation that had so cleverly held the 'Heaven and Hell', masses in check.

Such fundamentalism then, not only stops progress, it devastates minds. It keeps individuals locked within a false reality. It is a reality that is set up in such a clever way, that individuals cannot see beyond it. It sometimes takes a genius or two, to come along and 'break the mold'. An analogy of this is the Hollywood blockbuster movie, the Matrix with Keanu Reeves. Individuals are trapped within a matrix, that reflects a false reality. But because individuals within that matrix, have no way of seeing beyond it, they have no other perspective beyond that reality and no way of knowing it is artificial.

In the book Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension, by Michio Kaku... he gives the analogy of goldfish in a pond, they would 'think' that pond is the only universe and would have no way of seeing beyond that limited World-view. Geniuses like Copernicus and Galileo, confronting the populace with the heliocentric World-view, would be analogous, to a man taking the goldfish out the pond, suddenly it would be 'thinking' beyond its earlier narrow boundaries. Such identifications break fundamentalist World-views and sometimes at the detriment of parasites, that live of the masses of non-thinking dupes and thus, need to keep it going.




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The 'Truth' of the Matter

The truth is an epistemological concept, rather than an existential identification of reality. What that means is, that the truth for one individual may well contradict that of another. For example, a Christian believes in the God of Abraham and holds it as true. An atheist on the other hand believes it to be untrue.

It was a long held believe throughout history that the Earth was flat and this was held up as the truth. In the Dark Ages people believed in witches and believed in them as true entities.

How many of us have gone to find something in a drawer and believed with true conviction that it is there. We discover when we open the drawer, that it is not there and we immediately recall taking it out of the drawer the previous day, that becomes a new truth that replaces the old one. Or, perhaps it was true at the time we put it there, but without our knowledge someone else moved it.

Looking back through history, we know that scientific progress often gets stultified by holding on to the truth too dogmatically. It took centuries to overthrow the geocentric view of the universe and deflate that truth, replacing it with the truth that we live in a heliocentric universe. Of course, this old-world view was convenient to the priests of the Church in holding onto an up and down, heaven and Hell, view of existence.

Politicians are very good at telling the 'truth'. They are especially good at it coming up to election time... the truth that their policies are good and the oppositions policies are bad. Spin doctors make a living out of feeding the media that which they want the public to believe is the truth.

Of course what we believe to be true as an epistemological concept, is not the same as what is actually true as a universal constant within reality. There is a political party called The UK Natural Law Party, who believe that through meditation that they can float and they can be seen sitting down, with legs folded (yoga style) hopping up and down on mats; like 'space hoppers' (does anyone remember those toys) on their posteriors, this of course is held as true for them, but is there any scientific evidence that anyone has ever suspended the know physical constants and defied the laws of gravity?

One can specify two kinds of truth, they are:

1) A truth as an epistemological concept. Such 'truths' are not objectively verified, through deductive and inductive scientific methods, with reference to known universal constants and are simply believed to be true. An example of such a 'truth', which was held to be true for a long period of history; is that the 'the Earth is Flat'.

2) Truth as an existential identification of reality. Such truths are objectively verified, through deductive and inductive scientific methods, with reference to known universal constants and are believed to be true, based on those known constants.

Within the scientific method, identifications of reality are built up on a hierarchy of knowledge. One starts with a model and builds a hypothesis around that model. When more and more facts have been identified, through deductive and inductive reasoning, a hypothesis moves up the hierarchical ladder and becomes a theory ...as more facts are discovered, the theory is either strengthened, if the facts do not contradict the theory; or weakened and even overthrown if they do.

Scientific truth as defined in terms of a theory, such as the Theory of Relativity, The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, Quantum Theory et al - Such scientific 'truths' are never held as absolute truths, such as the absolute truth of the 'true believer in the God of Abraham'. Rather, such truths are always classed as tentative scientific truths. This basically means that the highest prize is given to anyone who can overthrow a well grounded theory, with contradictory evidence that would lead to a new theory, taking its place. Such as the historical example of: the overthrow of the geocentric view of the universe for the heliocentric.

The most important thing to be aware of then, when someone claims to hold the truth, is to at the very least, hold a healthy degree of skepticism that they really do, unless evidence is presented to back up their position.geocentric,heliocentric, UK Natural Law Party, laws of gravity, TheDark Ages, yoga,God of Abraham




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