Another Troubling ism

Religious fundamentalism is dangerous, there can be no question about this.  Here’s an interesting article titled Ending Biblical Brainwash which is subtitled “For better mental and cultural health, it’s time we classified religious fundamentalism as a psychological disorder.”  The article mentions Richard Dawkins, some of whose ideas I find, out there, Ayn Rand, Freud; the author doesn’t realize Freud is being discredited; Nietzsche and Daniel Dennett.

The piece makes one very important point which is the root of the problem with religious fundamentalism.

A belief becomes cognitively unhealthy when the believer’s free will and normal critical processes have been damaged by the belief system’s dialectic. I argue that fundamentalist religions, insofar as they cripple a believer’s ability to have free will, exhibit rational choice and appropriately assess the nature of the physical environment, have already passed this threshold.

Via J. Orlin Grabbe.

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