Good article on fundamentalism

[drfuzzy]

I don't understand how this/these institutions still exist. Like the Amish, do they shut out the entire world? Or is it like it sounds, beaten into submission (mental & physical) so you trust nobody but the people beating you, because at some point they stop and you've earned your reward?

Twisted Stockholm syndrome?

Side note: Tell us how the new job is please.

Yes, mh.  Beaten into submission AND shut away from the entire world (we were literally taught that everyone who didn't believe the way we did was evil - and TV was evil, radio was evil (except the xtian station), rock music was very evil, most of the books in the public library were evil . . . ) yes, the fundies often stay very separate.

You got out of being beaten by marrying someone who wouldn't beat you.  However, if you stayed in the church, a husband was expected to "discipline" his wife.  

I was lucky, I got to go to college.  Regular college. The church people who said that college was dangerous were right - college tends to expect people to THINK.  That's why these folks discourage their kids from going to college - and if they REALLY want a degree, there are a few xtian colleges that are approved.  Not only that, but most Fundamentalists aren't wealthy . . . 

I think that the fear of learning, the fear of the internet, the lack of technological knowledge is going to eventually be the undoing for these groups.

Oh! The new job is . . . a job. It's for a hardware store that is trying to launch a web-store. I put all the information for an item into a form that uploads it to the web. I'm grateful - I have a mortgage to pay! Thanks for asking.