Reply #26: Fear of Pluralism [View All]

These folks want to take anything that challenges their worldview and make it go away. Fundie-ism (and among theologians and interested and educated parties to the topic, "fundie" is different from "fundamentalist," the latter being used to refer to the theological tenets of a strain of religion, the former referring to the attitude and behaviors of a certain foamy element self-declared to follow the tenets of the former) abhors pluralism. It's a lack of flexibility in the system. Everything must be true about the religion, and if one thing is proven untrue or even simply cast into doubt, the whole structure must therefore be untrue or in doubt. So the solution is to eliminate the challenges to the structure.