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Why it’s great to be a fundamentalist.
Very often these days fundamentalists get a very hard time because of their extremist views and are practically demonised by moderates across the political spectrum as well as each other. But very few of these chastisers have actually even tried to look at the fundamentalist point of view and find any positives in it. What we never hear about fundamentalism are the tremendous advantages to it. So I want to outline these.One of the biggest advantages to fundamentalist thought is that it makes…See More
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Why it’s great to be a fundamentalist.
Posted on April 21, 2010 at 8:00am 3 Comments 0 Likes
Very often these days fundamentalists get a very hard time because of their extremist views and are practically demonised by moderates across the political spectrum as well as each other. But very few of these chastisers have
actually even tried to look at the fundamentalist point of view and find any
positives in it. What we never hear about fundamentalism are the tremendous
advantages to it. So I want to outline these.…
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- At 3:26pm on April 21, 2010,
Cyril Butler said…
- Hi Cian, I would be extremely grateful if you could you sign my petition to establish a secular education system. I juat started the petition last weekend and hope to take it further if I can get enough people to sign and promote it. The website is http://www.secularpetition.com. Please join the group on facebook if you are a member as this will greatly help to promote our aims. The link to the facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=113520072002955
- At 4:17pm on April 19, 2010,
- Hi Cian, could you sign my petition for a secular education system as I am trying to get it off the ground. If you could join the group on facebook and spread the word http://www.secularpetition.com. The facebook group is Petition for a secular irish education system. Thanks for your help
- At 6:35am on April 18, 2010,
Dr. Terence Meaden said… - Hello Cian and welcome to this friendly meeting place where (like you) we recognise that all gods are phoney and religions are cunning frauds used to control people;
and how tragic and inexcusable it is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and more.
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