Reply #34: Fundamentalism seems to effectively shut people's brains down.

[mlawson]

Of course, that is the hope of the 'leaders' -- makes them much easier to control, if they think that 'God' says to do this, and not do that, etc etc. But the key is to have the masses convinced that some mullah or preacher has a direct link to 'God'. Once that is accomplished, undoing it appears to be almost impossible.