> They definitely are not victims of oppression in the way "darkies" are. To
> put "fundie" in the same category as "darky" or "towelhead" implies that
> "fundies" are the victims of world historic oppression - a seriously false
> proposition.
>
> As Kelley says, no matter what we say, even if we are silent, they will lie
> and say we are vicimizing them. They are doing that now, and there is very
> little mass media report of left descriptions of fundamentalists.
I still think that there needs to be more in-your-face behavior directed at religious fundamentalists. This will challenge them and make them think about the price they will pay for pusing their bullshit on other people. At the same time, this helps us secular people demonstrate that we exist and that we won't tolerate their shit.
How many people here come from fundamentalist families?
I was raised in a fundamentalist family. They forced me to go to private school from kindergarten to 6th grade. Even these Lutherans had some sinister ways of indoctrinating this persecution complex into the minds of young kids. I remember some of this propaganda, including one ethics lesson about faith where the teacher scared us with a hypothetical story about what we would do if anti-Christian people came to our neighborhoods and threatened Christians. Part of this persecution lesson involved asking us kids if we would assert our religious beliefs if these persecutors threatened to kill us if we said we were Christians.
Pretty sick stuff, but this is how fundamentalists think.
Chuck