Reply #77: "real christians" are enablers

[theobscure]

If we are going to get on "war" footing (which I'm certainly ready to do), it's time to stop mincing words. Religious moderates legitimize and thus empower religious fundamentalists. I fear religious fundamentalism; but I disdain religious moderation.

Choosing to be partially delusional (religious moderation) is no more reasonable than being completely delusional(religious fundamentalism). The reason "real christians" are so silent about fundamentalism is because they fear their own exposure. Their precarious "house of cards" belief structure constructed through painstaking compartmentalization renders them incapable of challenging fundamentalism anyway, even if they wanted to.

To "fight" the kind of constructive "war" that doesn't diminish reasonable people and result in bloodshed, religious moderates must be the "enemy". "Weapons" like persuasion, debate, reason, logic, and science can win over religious moderates in a tough and harsh, but victim-less fight. To try and get anywhere with those same bloodless "weapons" with a religious fundamentalist is an impossibility. Real weapons are all a religious fundamentalist will ever understand. I prefer the former to the latter.

Win the war over religious moderates and the chance to marginalize religious fundamentalists and create a sane world for those who choose to live in one, becomes a hopeful proposition. Continuing to choose political correctness in regard to religious moderates and hand wringing in regard to religious fundamentalists will only result in the destruction of us all.