Reply #35: I don't subscribe to that being the case. [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

While I'm certain there are Christian Right fundamentalists (the folks driving the theocratic agenda in the US) who spend large amounts of time helping the poor, working in soup kitchens, etc. In my area it certainly seems that liberal church groups (Glide Memorial, for instance) pick up a great deal of that slack.

I don't have a problem with Fundamentalists just because they are fundamentalists- and it's a gross misrepresentation of the situation to make it sound like that is the general case, here. I could give a flying fuck what someone personally believes about the Universe. However, when because of those beliefs they start trying to get bullshit like a 6,000 year old Earth and Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark taught in public school science class, when they prevent my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters from getting married, when they interfere with the reproductive choice of 100 million American women, when they attack the separation of church and state, then their beliefs become my problem.

Furthermore, I have problems with Islamic or Christian Fundamentalists when their beliefs require them to blow people up, shoot doctors, bomb clinics or gay bars, kill cartoonists, etc. etc. etc.

And frankly, with regards to the Christian Right in this country, it seems like the lions' share of them are WAY too busy railing against gays and trying to get women put in jail for taking the birth control pill to effectively, say, give sandwiches to poor people. And who is filling these mega-churches where the preachers say "God wants you to be RICH RICH RICH!" (he just doesn't want you to be gay or have sex for non-procreative purposes) ... I suspect it's many of these "fundamentalists" you hear people complaining about in these parts.

And you know what else? There's a lot of completely non-religious people doing charity work, too. One big difference being that they don't ever require poor people to listen to a sermon about Jesus before they get lunch.