RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates?
September 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 14, 2017 at 1:33 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Fundies ruin it for everyone, themselves first of all. They inherently distrust their own powers of perception and insight so they cling to what is claimed to be authoritative. Then, pumped up by their slavish devotion to authority, they then regard everyone who hasn't fallen into line with the authority they have chosen and lash out with great conviction and (borrowed) authority.
The great irony in doing so, ofc, is that the very powers of perception and insight which they inherently distrust are the ones which made the determination that the divine "authority" was...in fact, both divine and authoritative. They're lashing out, with great conviction..at those people who do not trust the same abilities that they themselves do not trust. Their own ability to make such authoritative pronouncements in the first place.
If they don't trust their own invocations of authority, why should we trust their invocations of any other authority?
"It;s right/wrong because god said so! You can't trust subjective human judgement!"
-Well, okay, but that's why -you- .......subjectively, as a human, think x is right or wrong. If we can't trust such judgement....then.......
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