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Pete Lit on Fundamentalism

Oct 13th, 2007
by fadingad.

Pete Lit

Posted in: Fundamentalism, Propaganda.

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  1. fadingad says:
    October 13, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Pete- I couldn’t agree with you more. As the rest of the world is racing towards fundamentalism, this country feels it must keep in pace.

    As a child, I was an agnostic and felt it was presumptive of adults to assume I believed in a Christian god. After being thrown out of Sunday school for asking if god was a woman (if He gave birth to the Universe, whose uterus did He borrow?) I developed a skeptical view of churches. Today my view is more cynical as I witness churches around the country continuing to drum up money with their hate-based fundraising issues.

    Prayer laws set dangerous precedents on the infringement of civil rights and establishment of “national religion.” In a multi-cultural society, this is bound to become problematic. In our school, we sing the National Anthem, America the Beautiful, recite the Pledge of Allegiance (I give a lesson on what “indivisible” means- after saying it as a child ad nauseum and never having it deconstructed by my teachers) and then we recite the Peace Builders Pledge (which for me has more resonance). Since I go to different classes each day, depending on the class, I can barely get some to stand and pledge- let alone be quiet for the other morning announcements. Good luck getting them quiet in Illinois. Often when I hear people say “I will pray for you,” I imagine they are really flipping me a verbal bird.