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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Flaming Bedbugs

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KGxvi8/29/2019 2:42:26 pm PDT

re: #118 Anymouse šŸŒ¹šŸŽƒ

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I know enough theology to be a counter-apologist. It doesnā€™t take a degree in theology (or even a college degree at all).

The Bible makes testable claims about the physical universe. It fails all those tests.

The idea that fundamentalists are somehow ā€œnewā€ is counter-factual. Fundamentalism has always existed in Christianity, and frequently ruled with an iron fist (thereā€™s a reason we call them ā€œthe Dark Agesā€). The Puritans didnā€™t come here for religious freedom, they came to set up a theocracy, and killed people for witchcraft because the Bible tells them to do that (and opposed smallpox inoculation because smallpox was ā€œGodā€™s willā€).

Fundamentalism was beaten down by the Enlightenment and only seems strange today because it was quiet for a while. It is the norm, not the exception, of Christianity.

Fundamentalism isnā€™t unique to Christianity, either. I suspect it is a product of our neural hardwiring to create easily understandable patterns, even where those patterns arenā€™t actually true.