Religious fundamentalism

[dyresand]

religion dying in the us more and more people are becoming religiously unaffiliated and atheism is  on the rise. However though
the crazy religious right however is going to third world countries and well developing countries and  fucking them up with religion  
that being said.. said countries do not need our nutters going over there spreading their religious views.

[Minimalist]

Yeah, but.....better than keeping them here.

[dyresand]

Yeah, but.....better than keeping them here.

True.. but i mean those poor people......

[Minimalist]

They've got bigger problems then some loud mouth preacher.

[dyresand]

They've got bigger problems then some loud mouth preacher.

True

[blahman212]

I think it's down to hope. If you go to someone in a desperate situation and say that they can be saved by following a specific system, I can imagine why it might seem appealing to them. They haven't had someone else tell them the facts, that it's incredibly unlikely that a God exists, and to be honest I would speculate that they wouldn't care, since they think it'll make their lives better. I definitely don't agree with it, but that's my impression of the situation.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

I think it's down to hope. If you go to someone in a desperate situation and say that they can be saved by following a specific system, I can imagine why it might seem appealing to them. They haven't had someone else tell them the facts, that it's incredibly unlikely that a God exists, and to be honest I would speculate that they wouldn't care, since they think it'll make their lives better. I definitely don't agree with it, but that's my impression of the situation.

Unless they're gay people living in Uganda, where American missionaries convinced them to pass a law making homosexuality a death penalty offense. (Hey, to be fair, it is biblical.) Only after an international outcry did they back off to make it "just" life in prison.

Or unless your tribe was Christianized and the next tribe was Islamized... and now you have a new reason for genocidal wars to start.

These are the legacies of our exported missionaries.

[ignoramus]

Religion has always been good at dividing people which leads to war which means we sell lots of weapons.
How many arseholes at the top of the food chain sincerely believe in God? Not many.

[Foxaèr]

Missionary work destroys cultures.

[Fake Messiah]

Fundamentalism or just plain Christianity. Here's a closer look at Uganda and US founded homophobic program that is really nasty. In Churches with it's liturgies that homosexuality is evil.
Then preachers also hold lectures in government founded schools:




Where they also have school plays where this boy is simulating bleeding from his ass and eventually dying after being raped by gay person because according to christian preachers there is no other sexual intercourse between gays but rape.


Or in a school lesbian play where a woman on he scholarship to US has learned that after being seduced by a lesbian she cannot have kids anymore


Curriculum adopted


Anti gay preaching is even more intense in high-school


Where the christian preacher is also showing them this nasty slide with lies that this person died because of fisting (note: I censored the nasty stuff for the sake of the forum, but it showed intestines being spouted out and hanging from the asshole)


Later reporter is talking to young adults who tell her that they rape lesbians and kill gay or at least people that are suspected to be.



When reporter confronted one of the state's politicians about how gays and people suspected for being gay are killed and bullied


This is hardly a deed of one or few overly zealous or "crazy" Christians that supposedly make other Christians roll their eyes, but millions of Christians in US that donate money and people (mostly young) that truly believe that Jesus Christ himself called them and talk to them to go to Africa and do the christian stuff.