In Response, Pt. I

“Christians’ fundamentals are so much better, they give people the right to have their own beliefs or none if that’s what the person wants/believes.”

“Fundamentalism” describes an adherence to Christian doctrines based on a literal translation of the Bible. They are similar to Evangelism in that they have extremely strict and somewhat limited ideas of what is right; for example, activities such as watching movies, drinking alcohol, smoking, dancing, and listening to pop music are considered sinful. A pure fundamentalist has an approach to politics based on an international conspiracy or dispensationalist theology, believing that our current religious situation will result in an eventual one-religion world led by the literal Antichrist. They are opposed to human cloning, stem cell research, relaxed sodomy laws, euthanasia, homosexuals and, of course, abortion.

This is not a religion that allows open-mindedness. It is a strict, limited view of what is right and what is wrong. Take the subject of abortion, for example. It is an issue that can be seen from either perspective fairly easily. On the one side, it is the mother’s choice whether she wants to perform an abortion; but on the other side, it is considered murder because once the egg is fertilized, it is considered a living being. Fundamentalists have gone so far as to draw ethnic comparisons between abortion clinics and Nazi concentration camps. Within the ideals of fundamentalism, abortion is wrong and sinful and should be banned, which often leads to acts of violence against abortion clinics.