Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
March 26, 2022 at 12:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2022 at 1:09 am by vulcanlogician.)
My knee-jerk reaction is yes. Even though I still have plenty of criticisms of allegorical religion.
I'm sure most of you agree with me here. So to avoid the "yes/no" dichotomy of the question that would undoubtedly result in a resounding "yes," Let's put a different spin on the question:
If you were to guess at the percentages involved in which one creates more problems, allegory or fundamentalism, how would the numbers fall?
For me, it would be:
90% Fundamentalism
10% Allegory
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Keep in mind that I'm parsing the concepts here, not specific religious sects. Even Southern Baptists are allegorists to some degree. And Catholics are fundamentalists to some degree (even though Catholicism is seldom seen as a fundamentalist sect per se).
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Assuming we could chuck all problems that religion creates into a pie graph, which percentage of that pie graph would be resultant of fundamentalism and which would be resultant of allegorical belief?
I'm sure most of you agree with me here. So to avoid the "yes/no" dichotomy of the question that would undoubtedly result in a resounding "yes," Let's put a different spin on the question:
If you were to guess at the percentages involved in which one creates more problems, allegory or fundamentalism, how would the numbers fall?
For me, it would be:
90% Fundamentalism
10% Allegory
***
Keep in mind that I'm parsing the concepts here, not specific religious sects. Even Southern Baptists are allegorists to some degree. And Catholics are fundamentalists to some degree (even though Catholicism is seldom seen as a fundamentalist sect per se).
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Assuming we could chuck all problems that religion creates into a pie graph, which percentage of that pie graph would be resultant of fundamentalism and which would be resultant of allegorical belief?
