The incredible credulity of the great mass of humanity persists unabated in spite of the many advances in science, the availability of education, and what was believed to have been a certain degree of social progress over the millennia. Millions upon millions of people still tend to believe ridiculous things, and a good number still want very much to die for them.There is too much bloody money to made in this racket. The extremely well-fed and superbly coiffed apearance of most modern-day Elijahs is best explained, I think, by the mountains of cash to be had by anyone who can tap into the astounding, monumental gullibility of the faithful, with their inexhaustible child-like credulity and insatiable hunger for misery and death.
Fundamentalists believe that the present is a glorious time in which to live because Christ will return shortly to destroy everything and kill almost everyone.
What interests fundamentalists to the exclusion of everything else is not the paradisal happiness of the saints, but rather the horrors other people are going to have to suffer for their skepticism.
Great religious faith cancels obligations to the world of reason and to common sense: the heroes of Christian morality seem to be those who can demonstrate the greatest contempt for the ground that holds them up.
David Hopewell Ph.D.
Christian Fundamentalism: A Journey into The Heart of Darkness