AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISM

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AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISM
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• Deeply held religious belief of any faith seems
  to be damaging. The fundamentalist is too
  committed to his faith to recognise that the
  world is a beautiful place when youre willing to
  share it with others without innate prejudice and
  hostility.

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• In the 21st century one way for us to get closer
  to God is to abandon belief in God the almighty,
  the creator, the worker in mysterious ways, the
  judge and reward of all who truly love him. This
  God has become a danger

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• for hes become not the God of the martyr,
  willing to die or suffer for faith but the God
  of the killer, willing to make others die or
  suffer as an act of faith and of the
  narrow-minded who claim that their love for God
  must be expressed as hostility to anyone whose
  views, lifestyle or sexuality is different to
  their own.

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• We live with a world-view thats been shaped by
  two great intellectual and spiritual sources
• the development of Christianity
• and the knowledge derived by science and reason.

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• Our culture is essentially humane and
  inquisitive.
• Its aim is to open doors rather than build
  walls.

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• At the beginning of the 21st century we need to
  define and offer an appropriate spirituality for
  a post-religious society

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• There will always be a place for those who seek
  the affirmation of certainty in the beliefs,
  understanding and practices of the past so
  fundamentalism will not die but there is a risk
  that it will kill any chance of developing an
  appropriate good news for this century.

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• We do not live in a post-Christian society but a
  society where the old affirmations of religion in
  such ideas as God in control of history, the
  possibility of physical miracles, heaven and hell
  or the bible as literal truth are inconsistent
  with how life is now experienced.

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• Love God and your neighbour as yourself
• Treat others the way you want to be treated

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• The essential teaching of Jesus is the benchmark
  that most people still hold as the basis of
  personal morality but there is no place for a
  theology based on pre-scientific thought.

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• If we are to offer a spirituality for the 21st
  century then we must look to the future rather
  than the past and have the courage to allow those
  who cannot to go their own way.

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• God is now here