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Author Topic:   What Would Society Look Like Under Biblical Fundamentalism?
anglagard
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Message 1 of 2 (382411)
02-04-2007 3:19 PM


In the thread Lying for Jesus Award starting here Message 181 Buzsaw, Nemesis Juggernaut, and Hoot Mon implied that any fear of Christian Fundamentalism is misplaced and overblown. In order to determine if such a fear is overstated, I would like to ask such fundamentalists and their sympathizers what they would do if they had the power to change things. Specifically, I would like to ask them how they would change the following:
Form of Government: Would you preserve democracy as it is now, or would you prefer a government made up of religious leaders of your persuasion, a kingdom, a dictatorship, or some other form of government?
First Amendment freedoms: Would these be preserved or would some religions or forms of free speech such as pornography or criticism of religious/government leaders be banned?
Education: Would you change public education to include religious instruction and if so, which religion(s) would be permitted? Would you ban education in all Natural Sciences, ban specific elements of the sciences such as evolution, geoscience, and cosmology or leave public education as it is?
Medicine: I know that there is much made about the power of prayer and faith healing among our fundies. Would you ban the practice of modern medicine? Would you replace current medical treatments with prayer, laying on of hands, and snake handling?
Popular Culture: Would you censor books, music, and movies? Would there be a dress code like the Amish or Mao Zedong’s China had/have? Would homosexuality be made illegal?, Abortion?, Premarital sex?, Alcohol, Tobacco?, Medicine/Drugs?, Rap Music?, Rock Music?
Justice: Would we retain our current system or would crimes and punishments be dictated by Biblical Law and rendered by religious authorities? What would the criminal justice system look like? Would there be a death penalty?
Foreign Relations: Would foreign policy be based upon Biblical prophecy? Would we unconditionally support Israel? Would you want a holy crusade to exterminate Islam?, Communism?, Secularism?, Catholicism?, Europe?
Technology: Would we no longer be allowed to use the principles of evolution in biological and medical research? Would we no longer be allowed to explore for oil and other mineral resources using principles from old earth geology? Would anything involving nuclear reactions become illegal as such scientists that are involved believe in nuclear decay? Or would such endeavors be hypocritically declared off-limits to the cleansing of our new age cultural revolutionaries as in China during the 60s?
I have been here for about 11 months and while I have seen much criticism of the modern world, I have not seen much concerning what our fundamentalist posters would offer as an alternative. Now they have a clear chance to tell the rest of us their plans for a better society. Maybe there is nothing to fear as they say, or maybe much more. I would like to know.
That is unless, of course, they don’t know themselves. Or the plan is secret out of embarrassment or clear lack of sanity.
I realize this topic could easily meander all over so I would ask that we allow the fundamentalists to speak for themselves and stick close to the topic if promoted. I think the questions asked are of great importance in furthering mutual understanding of the position held by both sides of the debate.
I guess Social Issues.
Edited by anglagard, : spelling in title!

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02-04-2007 4:19 PM


Thread copied to the What Would Society Look Like Under Biblical Fundamentalism? thread in the Social Issues and Creation/Evolution forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.

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