Even For The Devout, Christian Reconstructionism Is Scary Stuff

[jesus_h_biscuit]

I've written before about Christian Reconstructionism. Part of what I'd read about this before was a piece Mother Jones posted a while back called "A Nation Under God" that is a really good read

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[cp]

While I don't always agree with how they present the argument, I'm pretty squarely on the side of folks like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, who argue that basically all religious thought follows this same path. If you become truly convinced that what you believe is true, you quickly begin to think that everyone else should believe the same way. And if they don't, they're to be (at best) ostracized or (at worst) slaughtered. Living in a world where WMD's exist, those differences of thought and the actions they inspire become far more dangerous than they were (for example) during the Crusades or the Inquisition, which were plenty bad enough. Mankind should simply have by now grown out of his need for the fairy tales of religion, but it's the sort of thing that just gets passed down from one generation to the next, basically unchanged, unlike every other dynamic realm of human thought. If I taught my daughter that our flat Earth was the center of the Universe, I'd be charged with abuse of some sort. Why is it still fine to

[sapphsmum]

I read this post and it is scary. I guess what bothers me is that there are people who can take anything too far, religion included