Joshua+Block


 * Sample quote: **

== “Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”  ==

**-** [|**Karen Armstrong**]
**My sample analysis/commentary:**

== There are many different causes for religious fundamentalism in the world. Karen Armstrong brings our attention to the fact that religious fundamentalism crosses the boundaries of different religions and that it is often inspired by fear. Some might say that fundamentalism is like a religion unto itself and that fundamentalists have more in common with each other than they do with others who share their official religion. ==

== Throughout this brochure you will be introduced to different thinking that religious fundamentalists use to justify their hateful beliefs. ==

First step:

1) Question to investigate 2) Sources 3) Larger idea to prove


 * But in his justifiable fury at the slaughter of Jews in Europe simply because they were Jews, he came to hate Arabs simply because they were Arabs. He called Palestinians "dogs" and urged their expulsion from all territories constituting the biblical Israel. Those who flocked to Rabbi Kahane's meetings went further, shouting "Death to Arabs!"**

- from NYTimes article on Meir Kahane

Washington State
 * The Watchmen is a Christian movement that doesn't teach hate or seek out violent followers, says Mr. Hutcherson, who is a pastor in**
 * . "God's word does not allow us to hate. It tells us to stand up for righteousness and call a sin a sin," he says. He rejects, however, the idea of loving the sinner while hating the sin. "The Bible says when a sinner will not separate himself from a sin then he is condemned with it. The one thing I'm trying to do is get heterosexuals out of the closet. We are the majority," he says.**

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2008/0104/p03s01-ussc.html

Some helpful sources:

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

Beliefnet

Gender and Religion

Religions and Sexuality

Religion Quiz