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Possibility, but this opens a whole new can of worms:
There are some fundamentalist anythings (not just in religion, though it shows up there the most, but it happens in politics, too, and in my experience it usually is fundamentalists), where if the 'holy writ' isn't, or it isn't to be taken absolutely literally, their faith would utterly collapse.
Ergo, anyone or anything that might question said faith becomes
the enemy
to be rooted out at all costs. Maybe it's easier than having to face one's own terrors? Maybe.
That, I think, is one of the things humanity has to grow out of before we manage to destroy the world.
I don't know the answer. I've seen fundies of both the Jewish and Christian persuasions infighting bitterly over a relatively minor point of doctrine, because if everything isn't 'just so' their world is going to collapse. I've also seen a whole lot of it in the political regime I live under--that also gets very nasty, and people have been known to get dead, tortured, or disappeared for not following the party line.
I know it's why I run away from Orthodoxy in general, but that only keeps me at arms-length from it, it's not a solution.
As for what is--I don't know. I could say critical thinking. Though people that far into it will often reject the notion that there's enough room in the world for something other than what they believe.
I can't endorse apartheid either, things like that just take a bad situation and make it worse. But hey--take a look around your own city--see what they've done with housing development and who's got shunted where--conveniently out-of-sight of the rest of the populace in almost any country.
And we call this carnival progress...
CK
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