Religion in Society

Religious Feudalism

Religious fundamentalism is a propaganda engine the same one that brought Adolf Hitler to power. It's main tool is pride its used to give the masses a false sense of hierarchy over all that is not of them. Fear is the 2nd tool they use, it controls and directs the masses according to the threats created and fed to the masses by their leaders. These tactics can be seen in all major religions and they are used by almost every government on earth. Fundamentalism is strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology. However, Western forms of Fundamentalism are themselves the product of trends within modernism, that is liberalism. Fundamentalism can be understood as the 'flip-side of the coin' of modern liberalism (or alternatively, modern liberalism is the flipside of modern fundamentalism). The term "fundamentalism" was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century, and that had its roots in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy of that time. The term usually has a religious connotation indicating unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. "Fundamentalism" is sometimes used as a pejorative term, particularly when combined with other epithets (as in the phrase "right-wing fundamentalists").

In the context of monotheism fundamentalism is the type of religious behaviour that takes a central religious text and places in such a holy, sacred place that it becomes considered infallible and from God rather than from man - in Islam, Muhammad didn't write the Qu'ran, he merely recited the copy of it that Allah created in Heaven. Fundamentalists take the tenets of their religion so seriously that Earthly evidence will not dissuade them from ...