{"id":657,"date":"2004-12-07T21:08:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T01:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/12\/07\/fundamentalism-stinks-fundamentalism-"},"modified":"2007-02-14T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T05:12:06","slug":"fundamentalism-stinks-fundamentalism-is-insanementalism-without-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/12\/07\/fundamentalism-stinks-fundamentalism-is-insanementalism-without-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentalism stinks, fundamentalism is insanementalism without the benefit of an excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Would like to put that translation up (mentioned last time), but am just not ready, and haven’t had time. However, there’s always enough energy to vent, eh? So, forthwith: we have a really terrific magazine in Victoria called Focus<\/a>. It’s available for free at various locations throughout town, but I’m seriously considering a subscription because it’s that<\/em> good, really. Unfortunately, it’s not online. (Dear Leslie Campbell, Publisher of Focus<\/a>: figure out some way to make the magazine’s online availability economically attractive and then do it<\/em>! Rob Wipond’s December column should be available to everyone — and so should Susan Musgrave’s take-down of Air Canada, and all her previous columns, too.) But no matter that it’s not yet online, because I am<\/em> (bwahaha!). Briony<\/a> Penn<\/a>, dashed interesting environmentalist, writes for Focus<\/em> on a regular basis. I missed her November column, but she must have compared environmental stewardship to living life according to principles set out in the biblical story of Genesis<\/em>. That garnered the following reader letter, from a Christian fundamentalist:<\/p>\n

The Bible, which is God-breathed, cannot be rewritten to suit someone’s comparison of dichotomies.<\/p>\n

The reason Noah and his family survived is due to their faith in the only<\/strong> one, true and living God, no other reason. Lack of obedience has its consequences both then and now.<\/p>\n

<\/em>[Ok, here comes the important part, pay attention:]<\/p>\n

Those who think true security is found by respecting our planet and its resources face an eternity devoid of anything but hopelessness. In an ever-changing world that lacks stability, and will not get better no matter how much we respect each other or resources [sic], the only true security is that of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there you have it: now you know why and how Christian fundamentalists don’t care a damn about environmental causes or the earth. Environmental causes are in their view a prideful, sinful matter that leads humans to believe (falsely) that they have some sort of human control over their destinies. Talk about being beaten before getting out of the gate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would like to put that translation up (mentioned last time), but am just not ready, and haven’t had time. However, there’s always enough energy to vent, eh? So, forthwith: we have a really terrific magazine in Victoria called Focus. It’s available for free at various locations throughout town, but I’m seriously considering a subscription because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}